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Conners, Frances A.; Tungate, Andrew S.; Abbeduto, Leonard; Merrill, Edward C.; Faught, Gayle G. – American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2018
Forty-two adolescents with Down syndrome (DS) ages 10 to 21 years completed a battery of language and phonological memory measures twice, 2 years apart. Individual differences were highly stable across two years. Receptive vocabulary scores improved, there was no change in receptive or expressive grammar scores, and nonword repetition scores…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Down Syndrome, Language Acquisition, Language Skill Attrition
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Finestack, Lizbeth H.; Sterling, Audra M.; Abbeduto, Leonard – Journal of Child Language, 2013
This study compared the receptive and expressive language profiles of verbally expressive children and adolescents with Down Syndrome (DS) and those with Fragile X syndrome (FXS) and examined the extent to which these profiles reliably differentiate the diagnostic groups. A total of twenty-four verbal participants with DS (mean age: 12 years),…
Descriptors: Expressive Language, Receptive Language, Verbal Communication, Children