Entries from December 2004
Byline: Children’s Hospital Boston
BOSTON, Jan. 3 (AScribe Newswire) — A survey of mothers in the January issue of Pediatrics found that physicians remain overwhelmingly negative in communicating a diagnosis of Down syndrome in newborn infants. Mothers reported that the majority of physicians were uninformed about the positive potential for children with Down syndrome, and rarely provided an adequate, up-to-date description of the children, printed information, or telephone numbers of other parents. By nearly all ratings — including explaining Down syndrome, the timing and …
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INDIANAPOLIS — Hardee’s restaurants here and in Fort Wayne, Ind., and Louisville, Ky., raised $19,155 for Indiana’s 2004 Down Syndrome Buddy Walks by donating 20 percent of breakfast proceeds on special "Share Days" during the month of September.
The Buddy Walks event, having been expanded this year from the inaugural fund-raiser, which raised $11,000 in Indianapolis only, supports camp opportunities for youth, parent support meetings and hospital deliveries of children with Down syndrome.
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> This study examined the ability of children and adolescents with Down syndrome (DS) to learn novel words embedded in spoken story contexts, a fast-mapping task complicated by the comprehension demands of the stories. Words to be fast mapped varied as a function of the specificity of their reference (i.e., clues to word meaning provided in the text converged on a specific object referent for which the subject has already acquired a label such as "monkey," or a less specific referent such as "a body part") and the distance between the three instances of their …
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One of the most striking features of Down syndrome (Trisomy 21; LeJeune, Gautier, & Turpin, 1959) is the poor performance of individuals with the syndrome on tests of verbal short-term memory. For example, their performance on tests of nonword repetition is poorer than that of typically developing children matched on receptive vocabulary (Cairns & Jarrold, in press) or nonverbal mental age (Laws & Bishop, 2003).
Similarly, individuals with Down syndrome perform more poorly on serial recall of digits than typically developing children matched on measures of receptive …
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