Specific motor abilities associated with speech fluency in Down's syndrome

DA Devenny, W Silverman, H Balgley… - Journal of …, 1990 - Wiley Online Library
Eight adult male stutterers with Down's syndrome (DS) were compared with a matched
group of fluent speakers with DS on verbal and manual motor production tasks at two levels …

Speech dysfluency and manual specialization in Down's syndrome

DA Devenny, WP Silverman - Journal of Intellectual Disability …, 1990 - Wiley Online Library
The relationship between speech dysfluency and manual lateralisation was studied in 31
adults with Down's syndrome. Analysis of speech samples from videotapes indicated that …

Speech disorder in children with Down's syndrome

B Dodd, L Thompson - Journal of Intellectual Disability …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
The speech of children with Down's syndrome (DS) is often unintelligible, unlike many other
children who have an intellectual disability. However, the nature of their speech disorder is …

Speech characteristics of fluent and dysfluent Down's syndrome adults

A Farmer, ER Brayton - Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica, 1979 - karger.com
The genetic condition, Down's syndrome, predisposes to the development of a varied and
extensive range of language and speech disorders. Recent diagnostic and therapeutic …

Cerebral specialization for speech perception and movement organization in adults with Down's syndrome

D Elliott, DJ Weeks - Cortex, 1993 - Elsevier
Adults with Down's syndrome and a group of undifferentiated mentally handicapped persons
were examined using a free recall dichotic listening procedure to determine a laterality index …

An analysis of speech disfluencies in down's syndrome and in normally intelligent subjects

FM Otto, E Yairi - Journal of Fluency Disorders, 1974 - Elsevier
Spontaneous speech samples were obtained from 19 institutionalized mongoloids and from
19 normally intelligent individuals. All subjects were evaluated by a panel of speech …

Manual and oral praxis in adults with Down's syndrome

D Elliott, DJ Weeks, S Gray - Neuropsychologia, 1990 - Elsevier
Mentally handicapped adults with and without Down's syndrome performed single
movements and movement sequences following both verbal and demonstration cueing …

The relation between gestures and stuttering in individuals with Down syndrome

B Maessen, E Rombouts, B Maes… - Journal of Applied …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background Evidence shows that neurotypical individuals who stutter use fewer gestures
than those who do not stutter. Presently, no research exists about the interaction of stuttering …

[HTML][HTML] The nature of dysfluency in Down's syndrome

M Bray - Posjećeno, 2003 - riverbendds.org
We know that the percentage of people with Down's syndrome who show characteristics of
dysfluency is high. Studies such as those by Preus (1973) and Devenny and Silverman …

Cerebral specialization in young adults with Down syndrome.

D Elliott, JM Edwards, DJ Weeks, S Lindley… - American Journal of …, 1987 - europepmc.org
Adults with and without Down syndrome performed a rapid unimanual finger-tapping task
alone and while sound-shadowing high frequency words. For male subjects, the concurrent …