17/12/2025
💜 Meet Our Members: CDKL5 UK • CDKL5 Deutschland • CDKL5 Slovakia • Asociación Afectados CDKL5 💜
We’re continuing our series celebrating the 54 E+A member organisations.
Today, we highlight four associations supporting families affected by CDKL5 Deficiency Disorder, a rare and severe developmental and epileptic encephalopathy caused by mutations in the CDKL5 gene.
🔗 Learn more about them:
• CDKL5 UK — curecdkl5.org.uk
• CDKL5 Deutschland e.V. — cdkl5-verein.de
• CDKL5 Slovakia - cdkl5.sk
• Asociación Afectados CDKL5 — aacdkl5.org
These organisations work every day to support families, raise awareness, and advance research for children and adults living with CDKL5 Deficiency Disorder. Through advocacy, peer support, collaboration with clinicians and researchers, and community-building, they help ensure that families are not alone on this journey.
🌟 What they expect from E+A:
Connection, shared knowledge, stronger visibility at the European level.
🌟 What they bring to E+A:
Lived experience, scientific engagement, collaboration in research and awareness initiatives.
Thank you for your hope, strength and unity. 💜
Stay tuned as we continue to introduce the organisations supporting people living with complex and rare epilepsies.