| Description |
xiii, 472 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
1. Applying the developmental perspective to individuals with Down syndrome / Robert M. Hodapp and Edward Zigler -- 2. An organizational approach to the study of Down syndrome: contributions to an integrative theory of development / Dante Cicchetti and Marjorie Beeghly -- 3. Temperament and Down syndrome / Jody Ganiban, Sheldon Wagner and Dante Cicchetti -- 4. Interactions between parents and their infants with Down syndrome / Jiri Berger -- 5. Attention, memory, and perception in infants with Down syndrome: a review and commentary / Sheldon Wagner, Jody Ganiban and Dante Cicchetti -- 6. Sensorimotor development of infants with Down syndrome / Carl J. Dunst -- 7. The growth of self-monitoring among young children with Down syndrome / Claire B. Kopp -- 8. Early conceptual development of children with Down syndrome / Carolyn B. Mervis -- 9. Language abilities in children with Down syndrome: evidence for a specific syntactic delay / Anne E. Fowler |
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10. Beyond sensorimotor functioning: early communicative and play development of children with Down syndrome / Marjorie Beeghly, Bedonna Weiss-Perry and Dante Cicchetti -- 11. Peer relations of children with Down syndrome / Felicisima C. Serafica -- 12. Families of children with Down syndrome: ecological contexts and characteristics / Keith A. Crnic -- 13. Early intervention from a developmental perspective / Donna Spiker |
| Summary |
This volume offers a state-of-art review of what is known about young children with Down syndrome from a developmental perspective. The underlying theme of the book is that children with Down syndrome, despite their constitutional anomalies and their additional medical and biological problems, can be understood from a normative developmental framework |
| Analysis |
Down's syndrome children Development |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Child development.
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Down syndrome -- Patients -- Family relationships.
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Down syndrome.
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Families.
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Child Development.
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Down Syndrome.
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Family.
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| Genre/Form |
Catalogs.
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| Author |
Beeghly, Marjorie.
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Cicchetti, Dante.
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| LC no. |
89025177 |
| ISBN |
0521374588 |
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0521386675 (paperback) |
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