Children with Down syndrome (DS) have cognitive disabilities resulting from trisomy 21.
Language-learning difficulties, especially expressive language problems, are an important …

… Author links open overlay panel Elizabeth Kay-Raining Bird a , Fred Genesee b , Ludo … in
experiences of bilingual children with DD in Kay-Raining Bird, Trudeau, & Sutton (this issue). …

Many children with Down syndrome (DS) are capable of developing some reading and writing
abilities. The purpose of this study was to further the knowledge of literacy learning and …

The purpose of this article is to describe the results of a thematic analysis of 79 semi-structured
interviews collected at six research sites in four countries in relation to the inclusion and …

Hypotheses that children and adolescents with Down syndrome show (a) a specific
expressive language impairment, (b) a "critical period" for language acquisition, (c) a "simple …

This study investigates the development of vocabulary and syntax comprehension skills
cross-sectionally in 48 children and adolescents with Down syndrome (Trisomy 21), aged 5–20 …

… Nonetheless, this finding is reminiscent of reports by Kay-Raining Bird and colleagues for
children with Down syndrome (Kay-Raining Bird et al. 2005, Feltmate and Kay-Raining Bird …

Predictors of language production skills in 12-minute narratives are investigated cross-sectionally
in 48 children and adolescents with Down syndrome (trisomy 21), aged 5 to 20 years, …

This study aimed to gather information from school- and clinic-based professionals about
their practices and opinions pertaining to the provision of bilingual supports to students with …

This study investigated whether memory for item order is selectively impaired in a group of
individuals with Down syndrome. The ability to recall correctly ordered information was …