Short-term memory and vocabulary development in children with Down syndrome and children with specific language impairment
β Scribed by Rachel F Hick; Nicola Botting; Gina Conti-Ramsden
- Book ID
- 111130268
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 463 KB
- Volume
- 47
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0012-1622
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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