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Language development in children and adolescents with Down syndrome

✍ Scribed by Chapman, Robin S.

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1997
Tongue
English
Weight
58 KB
Volume
3
Category
Article
ISSN
1080-4013

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✦ Synopsis

This review of recent work on language development in children and adolescents with Down syndrome focuses on sentence structure, grammatical words, and vocabulary. Evidence is summarized for a specific expressive language impairment, over and above the cognitive delay associated with the syndrome. A profile of strengths (lexical comprehension) and deficits (lexical and sentence production) is identified. Acquisition of productive syntax is shown to be ongoing in adolescence, without evidence of limits to learning at the onset of adolescence or the advent of complex syntax. Additional difficulties in verb and grammatical morpheme acquisition are identified. Predictors of individual variation in performance and competing explanations of language deficit are discussed briefly. Interventions shown to increase communicative effectiveness are summarized.

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