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Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research Vol.44 179-191 February 2001. doi:10.1044/1092-4388(2001/016)
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Parental Reports of Spoken Language Skills in Children With Down Syndrome

Eva Berglund 1
Mårten Eriksson 2

Iréne Johansson 3
1 Department of Psychology Stockholm University Stockholm, Sweden and College of Health and Caring Sciences Falun, Sweden and Uppsala University Hospital Uppsala, Sweden
2 University of Gävle Gävle, Sweden
3 University of Karlstad Karlstad, Sweden

eva.berglund{at}adm.uas.lul.se

Spoken language in children with Down syndrome and in children in a normative group was compared. Growth trends, individual variation, sex differences, and performance on vocabulary, pragmatic, and grammar scales as well as MaxLU (maximum length of utterance) were explored. Subjects were 330 children withDown syndrome (age range: 1–5 years) and 336 children in a normative group (1;4–2;4 years;months). The Swedish Early Communicative Development Inventory-words and sentences (SECDI-w&s) was employed. Performance of children with Down syndrome at ages 3;0 and 4;0 was comparable with that ofchildren in the normative group at ages 1;4 and 1;8 respectively. In comparison with children in the normative group of similar vocabulary size, children with Down syndrome lagged slightly on pragmatic and grammar scales. The early development proceeded in most cases with exponential or logistic growth. This stresses the great potential of early intervention.

KEY WORDS: Down syndrome, language, parental reports, normative group, SECDI

Submitted on March 17, 1999
Accepted on October 20, 2000


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