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How Do Adults Use Repetition? A Comparison of Conversations with Young Children and with Multiply-Handicapped Adolescents
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Bocerean, Christine; Canut, Emmanuelle; Musiol, Michel – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2012
The aim of this research is to compare the types and functions of repetitions in two different corpora, one constituted of verbal interactions between adults and multiply-handicapped adolescents, the other between adults and young children of the same mental age as the adolescents. Our overall aim is to observe whether the communicative…
Descriptors: Mental Age, Linguistics, Disabilities, Young Children
Development of Novel Metaphor and Metonymy Comprehension in Typically Developing Children and Williams Syndrome
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Van Herwegen, Jo; Dimitriou, Dagmara; Rundblad, Gabriella – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2013
This study investigated the development of novel metaphor and metonymy comprehension in both typically developing (TD) children and individuals with Williams syndrome (WS). Thirty-one TD children between the ages of 3;09 and 17;01 and thirty-four individuals with WS between the ages of 7;01 and 44 years old were administered a newly developed task…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Semantics, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Genetic Disorders
Visuospatial Support for Verbal Short-Term Memory in Individuals with Down Syndrome
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Duarte, Cintia Perez; Covre, Priscila; Braga, Ana Claudia; de Macedo, Elizeu Coutinho – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
Individuals with Down syndrome (DS) tend to have impaired verbal short-term memory (STM), which persists even when visual support is provided for carrying out verbal tasks. Objective: The current study aims to investigate whether visuospatial support, rather than just visual, can compensate for verbal STM deficits in these individuals. The…
Descriptors: Mental Age, Down Syndrome, Short Term Memory, Spatial Ability
The Effect of Configuration on VSWM Performance of Down Syndrome Individuals
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Carretti, B.; Lanfranchi, S. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2010
Background: Recent studies have demonstrated that individuals with Down syndrome (DS) are poorer than controls in spatial-simultaneous tasks, but not in spatial-sequential tasks. To explain this finding, it has been suggested that the simultaneous visuo-spatial working memory deficit of individuals with DS could be due to the request for…
Descriptors: Mental Age, Down Syndrome, Short Term Memory, Disabilities
Recognition of Emotional and Nonemotional Facial Expressions: A Comparison between Williams Syndrome and Autism
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Lacroix, Agnes; Guidetti, Michele; Roge, Bernadette; Reilly, Judy – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2009
The aim of our study was to compare two neurodevelopmental disorders (Williams syndrome and autism) in terms of the ability to recognize emotional and nonemotional facial expressions. The comparison of these two disorders is particularly relevant to the investigation of face processing and should contribute to a better understanding of social…
Descriptors: Mental Age, Autism, Social Cognition, Adolescents
Use of Preschool Preposition Test for Mentally Retarded and Other Handicapped Children.
Aaronson, May; And Others – 1980
The usefulness of the Preschool Preposition Test (PPT) as a cognitive screening and diagnostic tool for handicapped children is demonstrated through results of eight independent studies. The subjects were 354 children and youths, aged two to 20 years, with various handicaps: mentally retarded, autistic-like, moderately emotionally disturbed,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Autism, Cognitive Tests, Disabilities