UT Southwestern Medical Center’s Pediatric Genetics and Metabolism Division offers consultation, evaluation, counseling and treatment for inherited diseases and for known or suspected genetic conditions.

• The Genetics/Dysmorphology Clinic provides evaluation and testing for patients with known or suspected genetic disorders, information about specific genetic diseases, comprehensive case management with referral to medical specialists and community resources, family history analysis and genetic counseling to discuss reproductive options and chromosomal metabolic and DNA analysis for diagnosis of genetic disease. Other services include nutritional evaluation and counseling for children with hereditary diseases and psychosocial assessment and counseling.
  
  
• The Metabolic Disease Service offers evaluation and testing for children with known or suspected inborn errors of metabolism, education about specific inborn errors of metabolism, comprehensive case management with referral to medical specialists and community resources. In addition, physicians provide family history analysis and genetic counseling to discuss reproductive options, nutritional evaluation and counseling for children with inborn errors of metabolism and psychosocial assessment and counseling.
  
  
• The Down Syndrome Clinic provides comprehensive care for children with Down syndrome and their families — medical management, genetic counseling, speech and oral motor developmental evaluation and recommendations, physical development evaluation and recommendations, psychosocial support, screening and referral for behavioral or psychiatric problems, and referral to community agencies for educational intervention or therapies. The clinic’s team of professionals has more than 50 years of experience in caring for children with Down syndrome.