When Adam started kindergarten, his teacher could tell he was behind.

The other kids could color inside the lines. The other kids could identify red objects. Adam could not.

"He was my first child," said Adam's mother, Missy Ward. "I had no one to compare him to."

Then, Adam started having bathroom accidents. He started falling.

"He would trip over in the mall," Ward said. "Like a marionette — without the strings, the puppet just falls. It would be like that."

At the same time, the newest addition to the Ward family, Amanda, was in and out of the hospital. Amanda was born with cystic fibrosis and an enlarged liver, a condition that required her to have a liver transplant when she was four months old.

After the liver transplant in February 1995, Amanda tested positive for Niemann Pick

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