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Down syndrome and parental depression: A double hit on early expressive language development. ...
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Down syndrome (DS) is often characterised by intellectual disability with particular difficulties in expressive language. However, large individual differences exist in expressive language across development in DS. In the general population, one of the factors associated with variability in this domain is parental depression. We investigated whether this is also the case in young children with DS. METHODS: Thirty-eight children with DS between 8 and 48 months of age participated in this study. Their parents reported on the children's receptive and expressive vocabularies (MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory) and on parental depression. Furthermore, an experimenter-led standardized developmental assessment (Mullen Scales of Early Learning) was administered to the children to test five domains: gross motor, fine motor, visual reception, receptive language, and expressive language. RESULTS: A cross-sectional developmental trajectories analysis demonstrated that expressive ... : The Wellcome Trust; The Waterloo Foundation; The Baily Thomas Charitable Fund; Newnham College, University of Cambridge; The Isaac Newton Trust ...
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Adult; Child; Child of Impaired Parents; Child, Preschool; Cross-Sectional Studies; Depressive Disorder; Down Syndrome; Female; Humans; Infant; Language Development; Male; Middle Aged; Parents; Vocabulary
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URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/303437
https://dx.doi.org/10.17863/cam.50525
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