RT Journal Article
T1 Can individuals with Down syndrome improve their grammar?
A1 Moraleda Sepúlveda, Esther
A1 Lázaro López-Villaseñor, Miguel
A1 Garayzábal Heinze, Elena
AB Morphosyntax constitutes one of the most complex areas of language. It takes into account the structure of the word and that of the sentence, and its development allows one to establish adequately agreements both within the nominal phrase and in the rest of the sentence. Morphosyntax is particularly impaired in individuals with Down syndrome. To improve their morphosyntactic skills, an intervention programme was designed and carried out with a total of 20 Spanish-speaking children with Down syndrome; half of them composed the experimental group and the other half the control group. The results obtained show that the children in the experimental group improved more than the children in the control group in the areas of syntax, morphology and semantics, but not in pragmatics, where both groups improved to the same extent. Overall, the results obtained support the effectiveness of the programme implemented as a clinical and educational tool for intervention in individuals with Down syndrome.
PB Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
SN 1368-2822
YR 2013
FD 2013-05-07
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/120438
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/120438
LA eng
NO Sepúlveda, E. M., López‐Villaseñor, M. L., & Heinze, E. G. (2013). Can individuals with Down syndrome improve their grammar? International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 48(3), 343-349. https://doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.12002
NO Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad de (España)
DS Docta Complutense
RD 20 ene 2026