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 …

Background There is conjecture regarding the profile of cognitive development over time in
children with Down syndrome (DS). Characterising this profile would be valuable for the …

Compreender e produzir fala são considerados processos lingüísticos básicos, rápidos e
automáticos em função do seu objetivo central que é permitir a comunicação entre as …

The authors report a short-term reading intervention study involving 15 children with Down
syndrome (DS) who attended mainstream schools. The intervention programme taught …

Despite the potential benefits that computer approaches could provide for children with
cognitive disabilities, research and implementation of emerging approaches to learning …

Background Although reading abilities play a fundamental role in the acquisition of personal
autonomy, up until now studies investigating these abilities in Down syndrome (DS) are …

Increasingly, children with Down syndrome receive literacy instruction based on a
phonological awareness philosophy with the expectation of acquiring functional reading …

This article is based on language, memory andreading information gathered for a five
yearfollow-up study of 30 children and adolescentswith Down syndrome, aged from 10 to 24 …

Background In this study, we investigated the early development of stress in mothers of
children with Down syndrome, compared with mothers of children with developmental …

Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is the leading inherited cause of intellectual disability. The
syndrome is caused by a single gene mutation on the X chromosome. Although individual …