Background A number of genetic conditions with associated intellectual disability and/or
special educational needs have increasingly well‐defined behavioural phenotypes. Thus …

Background: This study evaluates the effects of a language and literacy intervention for
children with Down syndrome. Methods: Teaching assistants (TAs) were trained to deliver a …

The present study investigated whether the type of social reaction (s) experienced by sexual
assault victims varies according to the type of social support provider told about the assault …

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

Reading-related skills of youth with intellectual disability (ID) were compared with those of
typically developing (TD) children of similar verbal ability level. The group with ID scored …

Though children with Down syndrome can learn to read, they may have difficulty developing
some component skills, including phonological awareness and word decoding. Given …

Many children with Down syndrome demonstrate deficits in phonological awareness, a
prerequisite to learning to read in an alphabetic language. The purpose of this study was to …

This multiple baseline study investigated the effectiveness of text-based reading lessons for
students with intellectual disability (ID). Three students were selected who had not …

The present study assessed achieved reading stages of 190 school-aged children with
Down syndrome (DS, age 6–20) in Bavaria, one of the most populated federal states in …

The phonological awareness skills of 7-to 8-year-old children with intellectual disability (ID)
were compared to those of 4-to 5-year-old typically developing children who were matched …