In an earlier randomized clinical trial, daily communication and language therapy resulted in more favorable spoken vocabulary outcomes than weekly therapy sessions in a subgroup of initially nonverbal preschoolers with intellectual disabilities that included only children with Down syndrome (DS). In this reanalysis of the dataset involving only the participants with DS, we found that more ther...

INTRODUCTION The prognosis in the case of head injury may be different, Serious head injures are the leading causes of the death. In the remaining cases, the child recovers entirely, or disturbances of the cognitive and motor activities remain. The aim of the work is to show neurological and ophthalmological complications at the child after the fali down from the fifth storey. CASE REPORTS A ...

Unusual HIV-1 nef alleles were isolated from a woman and her vertically infected child. Both patients eventually progressed to develop AIDS. The child died at age 6.5 years, while the mother is currently alive, 13 years since her diagnosis with HIV-1. Predicted amino acid sequences of both mother and child Nefs diverged from the HIV-1 clade B consensus. In particular, they exhibited two separat...

The purpose of the present study was to analyze mother-child collaborative play in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) compared to children with Down Syndrome (DS) and typical developing children (TD). Children with ASD are often described as having deficient play skills, particularly in the symbolic domain. Caregivers' involvement in child play activities increases the structural com...

A major objection to top-down accounts of lexical recognition has been that they are incompatible with an account of acquisition, it being argued that bottom-up segmentation must precede lexical acquisition. We counter this objection by presenting a top-down account of lexical acquisition. This is made possible by the adoption of a flexible criterion as to what may constitute a lexical item dur...