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People and objects affect the quality of vocalizations in infants with down syndrome

✍ Scribed by Legerstee, Maria ;Bowman, Thomas G. ;Fels, Sabina

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1992
Weight
717 KB
Volume
1
Category
Article
ISSN
1057-3593

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Abstract

The vocalizations of eight infants with Down syndrome were recorded longitudinally in relation to different social and non‐social contexts. The infants were observed biweekly from 8 to 24 weeks and monthly up to 40 weeks. At each visit the infants were presented with their mother, a female stranger, and a rattle puppet, each alternately active and passive. Each condition lasted 60 sec. The results showed that by 4 months of age, the infants produced different types of vocal sounds in relation to environmental contexts. They produced significantly more melodic (speechlike) sounds, vocalic (non‐speechlike) sounds, and emotional (crying, laughing and fussing) sounds when facing people than objects. By 6 months of age, these utterances began to be distinguished between mother and female stranger and active and passive adults. However, within the communicative context the overall amount of vocalic (non‐speechlike) sounds produced was larger than the amount of melodic (speechlike) sounds. It is suggested that this low output of melodic sounds in the overall vocal production of these infants may adversely affect the development of more appropriate vocal behaviour.

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