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Joyce, Anna; Hill, Catherine M.; Karmiloff-Smith, Annette; Dimitriou, Dagmara – American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2019
Sleep plays a key role in the consolidation of newly acquired information and skills into long term memory. Children with Down syndrome (DS) and Williams syndrome (WS) frequently experience sleep problems, abnormal sleep architecture, and difficulties with learning; thus, we predicted that children from these clinical populations would demonstrate…
Descriptors: Sleep, Cognitive Processes, Down Syndrome, Genetic Disorders
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Phillips, B. Allyson; Conners, Frances A.; Merrill, Edward; Klinger, Mark R. – American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2014
Rule-based category learning was examined in youths with Down syndrome (DS), youths with intellectual disability (ID), and typically developing (TD) youths. Two tasks measured category learning: the Modified Card Sort task (MCST) and the Concept Formation test of the Woodcock-Johnson-III (Woodcock, McGrew, & Mather, 2001). In regression-based…
Descriptors: Down Syndrome, Mental Retardation, Youth, Comparative Analysis