The British Journal of Developmental Disabilities                        

Vol. 44, Part 2, JULY 1998, No. 87,  94-101

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EFFECT OF PARENTAL INTERVENTION ON MOTOR DEVELOPMENT OF DOWN SYNDROME INFANTS BETWEEN BIRTH AND AGE TWO YEARS

Carmen Torres and José Buceta

Summary

Previous studies have demonstrated that receptive language, but not expressive language skills decline with age in people with Down's syndrome. This study describes the close correlations that exist between expressive language skills (as measured on the Adaptive Behaviour Scale (ABS) and total ABS scores, and between expressive language skills and developmental age (as assessed by the Vineland Scale), in young adults with Down's syndrome. This suggests that expressive language skills act as a measure of the person's overall ability level, and hence (as expressive language skills are maintained into old age), that expressive language can be used in older adults as a proxy measure importance.

*Dr. Ma Carmen Torres
Professor, University of Santiago de Compostela, Dpto. de Psicologia Evoltiva y de la Educación, 15706 Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Tel: 0034 891 563100 Ext. 13741, Fax: 0034 981 521581 E-mail: pecatoma@uscmail.usc.es

Ma José Buceta
University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

* For Correspondence