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van der Schuit, Margje; Segers, Eliane; van Balkom, Hans; Verhoeven, Ludo – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
For children with intellectual disabilities (ID), stimulation of their language and communication is often not a priority. Advancements in brain research provide guidelines for early interventions aimed at the stimulation of language and communication skills. In the present study, the effectiveness of an early language intervention which draws…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Children, Brain, Early Intervention
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Pinheiro, Ana P.; Galdo-Alvarez, Santaigo; Sampaio, Adriana; Niznikiewicz, Margaret; Goncalves, Oscar F. – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2010
Williams syndrome (WS), a genetic neurodevelopmental disorder due to microdeletion in chromosome 7, has been described as a syndrome with an intriguing socio-cognitive phenotype. Cognitively, the relative preservation of language and face processing abilities coexists with severe deficits in visual-spatial tasks, as well as in tasks involving…
Descriptors: Sentences, Semantics, Language Processing, Spatial Ability