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Peer reviewedMundy, Peter; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1995
This longitudinal study found that 37 preschool children with Down's syndrome, compared to children with normal development, exhibited a disturbance in nonverbal requesting, and individual differences in nonverbal requesting were associated with subsequent development of expressive language in these children. Data indicate that acquisition of…
Descriptors: Developmental Tasks, Downs Syndrome, Language Acquisition, Longitudinal Studies
