In this study the verbal fluency procedure was used to investigate the organization of
semantic and phonological representations in children with Down syndrome (DS) and …

The aim of this study was to investigate the potential dissociation between mental age and
specific aspects of language: lexical and morphosyntactic comprehension and production in …

Background: This study reports the language and memory progress over five years of 30
adolescents and young adults with Down syndrome, and investigates the relationship of …

Non‐word repetition, in which participants hear and repeat unfamiliar verbal stimuli, is
thought to provide a particularly sensitive measure of verbal short‐term memory capacity …

Abstract focus is on the structural rule-governed aspects of language—the formal system by
which sounds are combined into words (phonology), and words into grammatically well …

Previous research has identified a deficit in phonological short-term memory in individuals
with Down syndrome. The present work aimed to analyze how a group of 30 individuals with …

The current study was designed to investigate the role played by verbal memory in the
advantage shown by individuals with Down syndrome in reading over listening text …

An increasing number of studies, addressing the linguistic abilities of individuals with Down
syndrome (DS) suggest that they exhibit strengths and weaknesses within the linguistic …

In order to examine whether any observed relationship between phonological awareness
and reading ability in Down syndrome reflects the typical use of a phonologically based …

This article compared the language profiles of adolescents with Down syndrome (DS) and
children with specific language impairment matched for nonverbal cognitive ability, and …