Discriminating Down Syndrome and Fragile X Syndrome based on language ability
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Discriminating Down Syndrome and Fragile X syndrome based on language ability.
ABSTRACT This study compared the receptive and expressive language profiles of verbally expressive children and adolescents with Down Syndrome (DS) and those with Fragile X syndrome (FXS) and examined the extent to which these profiles reliably differentiate the diagnostic groups. A total of twenty-four verbal participants with DS (mean age: 12 years), twenty-two verbal participants with FXS (m...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Child Language
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0305-0009,1469-7602
DOI: 10.1017/s0305000912000207