Wendell Sherman-Strand, 2, smiles as he plays with personal care assistant Taylor O'Neal in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on June 17, 2013. Sherman-Strand was born with a condition doctors cannot identify which has left him with little muscle tone and inability to walkor talk. Now doctors are having his full genome sequenced to try to determine the cause. (Carlos Gonzalez/Minneapolis Star Tribune/MCT)
A couple hope a new genetic test can help find what’s wrong with their son.
AT age two, Wendell Sherman-Strand still can’t sit up, walk or talk. The curly-haired Minneapolis boy doesn’t have the muscle control to grab a rattle or stand on his own.
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