This book presents activities selected to meet the specific needs of a child with Down Syndrome. The activities may be adapted and modified to become part of the normal daily handling of and interaction with the baby. No age limit is applied to any of the activities as there is a wide ...
“This increase in restlessness could be caused by Down syndrome-induced sleep apnea or more generalsleep disruption, but regardless of the origin, addressing it could lead to improved outcomes for the child,” Tooley said. Tooley said her initial findings provide hope for parents and caregivers,...
A clear relationship between slow phonological growth and slow lexical growth at the period of "first word" acquisition was established for children with DS. 展开 关键词: Speech therapy Phonological development in toddlers with Down syndrome and mixed-etiology developmental delays UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS ...
The aim was to investigate how toddlers with Down syndrome score on the SEP as reported by their parents, and whether similar correlations exist between behavior during a feeding interaction and the score on the screening instrument for this specific target group. For this reason, we used the ...
Hi, folks. My friends have kid who is diagnosed with down syndrome. I know that this is genetically determined, so there isn’t much that can be done. I would like to find out more about the life expectancy for people with this type of syndrome. I would appreciate all your replies ...
requesting (as measured by the Early Social Communication Scales) and problem-solving skills (as measured by an object retrieval task) was examined in 16 toddlers who had Down syndrome, 18 toddlers with developmental disabilities of mixed etiologies, and 19 typically developing infants and toddlers....
The Down syndrome (DS) phenotype is usually characterized by relative strengths in non-verbal skills and deficits in verbal processing, but high interindividual variability has been registered in the syndrome. The goal of this study was to explore the cognitive profile, considering verbal and non-...
In Study 1, 40 normal Ss (CAs 12 and 18 mo) and 16 Down syndrome (DS) Ss (CAs 19–38 mo; developmental quotients 45–73), and in Study 2, 17 normal Ss (CAs 24–30 mo) and 15 DS toddlers (CAs 3–4 yrs) were tested for sustained attention in a play situation. Ss were matc...
Parental depression relates to slower rate of expressive language development in young children with Down syndrome. • No association with parental depression was found for any other domain. • Parental depression and Down syndrome may constitute a double hit on expressive language development. Abstra...
In children with Down syndrome (DS) development of visual, motor and cognitive functions is atypical. It is unknown whether the visual impairments in children with DS aggravate their lag in cognitive development. Visual impairment and developmental lags