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Rossi, Natalia F.; Heinze, Elena Garayzabal; Giacheti, Celia M.; Goncalves, Oscar F.; Sampaio, Adriana – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
The objective of this study was to investigate the psycholinguistic abilities of children with Williams syndrome (WS) and typically developing children using the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities (ITPA). Performance on the ITPA was analysed in a group with WS (N=20, mean age=8.5 years, SD=1.62) and two typically developing groups,…
Descriptors: Children, Congenital Impairments, Genetic Disorders, Mental Retardation
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Hammond, Jennifer L.; Hirt, Melissa; Hall, Scott S. – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
Individuals diagnosed with fragile X syndrome (FXS), the most common known form of inherited intellectual disability, are reported to exhibit considerable deficits in mathematical skills that are often attributed to brain-based abnormalities associated with the syndrome. We examined whether participants with FXS would display emergent…
Descriptors: Genetic Disorders, Mental Retardation, Congenital Impairments, Arithmetic
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Van Aken, Katrijn; Swillen, Ann; Beirinckx, Marc; Janssens, Luc; Caeyenberghs, Karen; Smits-Engelsman, Bouwien – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2010
To examine whether children with a 22q11.2 Deletion syndrome (22q11.2DS) are able to use prospective control, 21 children with 22q11.2DS (mean age=9.6 [plus or minus] 1.9; mean FSIQ=73.05 [plus or minus] 10.2) and 21 control children (mean age=9.6 [plus or minus] 1.9; mean FSIQ=73.38 [plus or minus] 12.0) were asked to perform a visuo-manual…
Descriptors: Congenital Impairments, Genetic Disorders, Children, Matched Groups
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Holck, Pernille; Nettelbladt, Ulrika; Sandberg, Annika Dahlgren – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2009
Pragmatically related abilities were studied in three clinical groups of children from 5 to 11 years of age; children with cerebral palsy (CP; n = 10), children with spina bifida and hydrocephalus (SBH; n = 10) and children with pragmatic language impairment (PLI; n = 10), in order to explore pragmatic abilities within each group. A range of…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Cerebral Palsy, Congenital Impairments, Short Term Memory