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Aging Effect on Manipulative Skills in Individuals with Down Syndrome
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Chen, Chih-Chia; Ringenbach, Shannon D. R.; Arnold, Nathaniel E.; Nam, Kahyun – Journal of Motor Learning and Development, 2021
Deficits in motor performance have been well documented in individuals with Down syndrome (DS). However, only a few studies have focused on manipulative skills and older adults in this population. Given the associations between manipulative skills and daily living activities, more work is needed to examine the aging effect on individuals with DS.…
Descriptors: Down Syndrome, Psychomotor Skills, Aging (Individuals), Adults
Wayfinding Behaviour in Down Syndrome: A Study with Virtual Environments
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Courbois, Yannick; Farran, Emily K.; Lemahieu, Axelle; Blades, Mark; Mengue-Topio, Hursula; Sockeel, Pascal – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2013
The aim of this study was to assess wayfinding abilities in individuals with Down syndrome (DS). The ability to learn routes though a virtual environment (VE) and to make a novel shortcut between two locations was assessed in individuals with DS (N = 10) and control participants individually matched on mental age (MA) or chronological age (CA).…
Descriptors: Down Syndrome, Mental Age, Simulation, Comparative Analysis
Caregiver Report of Executive Functioning in a Population-Based Sample of Young Children with Down Syndrome
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Lee, Nancy Raitano; Fidler, Deborah J.; Blakeley-Smith, Audrey; Daunhauer, Lisa; Robinson, Cordelia; Hepburn, Susan L. – American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2011
The current study describes everyday executive function (EF) profiles in young children with Down syndrome. Caregivers of children with Down syndrome (n = 26; chronological ages = 4-10 years; mental ages = 2-4 years) completed the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function-Preschool (BRIEF-P; G. A. Gioia, K. A. Espy, & P. K. Isquith, 2003), a…
Descriptors: Mental Age, Caregivers, Down Syndrome, Young Children
Relationship between Gestures and Words in Children with Down's Syndrome and Typically Developing Children in the Early Stages of Communicative Development
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Iverson, Jana M.; Longobardi, Emiddia; Caselli, M. Cristina – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2003
Background: Previous research has emphasized the importance of gesture in early communicative development. These studies have reported that gestures are used frequently during the first two years of life and may play a transitional role in the language acquisition process. Although there are now numerous descriptions of the relationship between…
Descriptors: Verbal Communication, Mental Age, Delayed Speech, Language Acquisition