Background Studies on atypical phonological development are very limited for Arabic, and
to date no studies on Arabic have investigated the development of phonology in children …

Speech intelligibility is a major problem for individuals with Down syndrome. Although there
is clinical research regarding risk factors, as well as some specific characteristics of speech …

This study presents an analysis of linguistic aspects at the segmental and suprasegmental
levels in individuals with Down syndrome with or without a diagnosis of speech apraxia. Ten …

This paper describes phonological development in children with Down syndrome paying
particular attention to underlying deficits and intervention strategies. The first section …

The primary aim was to describe speech and language abilities in a clinical group of verbal
5-year-old children diagnosed with neurological disability (ND) in infancy, and the …

Individuals with Down syndrome (DS) experience a range of medical and
neurodevelopmental conditions, necessitating systematic study of their occurrence and …

Background Specific medical conditions are more prevalent in Down syndrome (DS)
compared to the general population. Medical heterogeneity has also been hypothesized to …

This article presents state‐of‐the art information on speech and language development and
skills in infants, toddlers, children, and adolescents with Down syndrome. Research is cited …

Down's syndrome is the most commonly occurring genetic abnormality, involving about 1 in
600 births. The increasing life expectancy of individuals with Down's syndrome has revealed …

The Down syndrome (DS) phenotype is usually characterized by relative strengths in non-
verbal skills and deficits in verbal processing, but high interindividual variability has been …