The language abilities of bilingual children with Down syndrome

Children with Down syndrome (DS) have cognitive disabilities resulting from trisomy 21. …
Children with Down syndrome (DS) have cognitive and language deficits secondary to a …

A survey of speech and language pathology services for Down syndrome: State of the art

L Kumin - Applied Research in Mental Retardation, 1986 - Elsevier
… , motor programming of speech sounds, tongue thrust, voice disorders, and fluency problems.
Each of these specific problems can occur in a person with Down syndrome, combinations …

[HTML][HTML] Differences and similarities in predictors of expressive vocabulary development between children with Down syndrome and young typically developing …

KAB Næss, J Ostad, E Nygaard - Brain Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
… Furthermore, children with Down syndrome also tend to have weak speech sound …
characteristics affect the speaker’s intelligibility, impeding articulation and fluency [90]. Children with …

Weak hand preference in children with Down syndrome is associated with language deficits

MA Groen, I Yasin, G Laws, JG Barry… - … : The Journal of the …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Speech fluency in their sample appeared to be independent from performance on … In the
current study, associations between manual asymmetry and speech, language and memory …

Speech impairments explain unique variance in adaptive behavior skills in young people with Down syndrome

C Stephan, L Clasen, E Adeyemi, NR Lee - American journal of speech …, 2021 - ASHA
Down syndrome (DS) is a disorder characterized by impairments in global cognitive
abilities and adaptive function. In addition, individuals with DS demonstrate pronounced …

Effectiveness of decoding and phonological awareness interventions for children with Down syndrome

CJ Lemons, AA Mrachko, DE Kostewicz… - Exceptional …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
… The authors noted that gains in phonemic segmentation fluency and nonsense word
fluency were not evident for many participants until around the 15th to 20th week of daily …

Reading skills in children with Down syndrome: A meta-analytic review

KAB Næss, M Melby-Lervåg, C Hulme… - Research in …, 2012 - Elsevier
… abilities among children with Down syndrome, and the present … skills in children with Down
syndrome by looking at strengths … Decoding is the process of transforming print into speech

Sampling context affects MLU in the language of adolescents with Down syndrome

S Miles, R Chapman, H Sindberg - 2006 - ASHA
… level in phrasing, speech rate, and placement of sentence stress. For some individuals with
… Intelligibility and fluency. To evaluate possible effects of intelligibility and fluency on the …

[HTML][HTML] The pathogenesis, assessment and treatment of speech fluency disorders

…, HA Euler, HG Bosshardt, S Cook… - Deutsches Ärzteblatt …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… Persistent speech fluency disorders often cause lifelong … ) for speech restructuring methods
such as fluency shaping; … weak evidence for combined speech restructuring and stuttering …

Spectral analysis of the voice in Down syndrome

…, S Bonassi, V Dall'Armi, I Giachetti, S Giaquinto… - Research in …, 2010 - Elsevier
… The voice quality of individuals with Down Syndrome (DS) is generally described as
husky, … of speech and language rehabilitation to exploit the accuracy of voice descriptors. …