[Development of communicative abilities in infants with Down syndrome after systematized training in gestural communication]. / Desarrollo de habilidades comunicativas en lactantes con síndrome de Down posterior a capacitaciones sistematizadas en comunicación gestual.
Rev Chil Pediatr
; 90(2): 175-185, 2019 Apr.
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-31095234
INTRODUCTION: Gestural communication, understood as the use of non-verbal gestures before the word appears, is a strength in children with Down syndrome (DS). OBJECTIVE: To describe com munication development behaviors in children with DS, before and after gestural communication training, based on the "Signs, words and games" workshops of the Baby Signs® program. SUBJECTS AND METHOD: Prospective study of children with DS between 18 and 22 months of cognitive age, who were trained in gestural communication according to the "Baby Signs®" methodology, evaluating communication skills through the MacArthur inventory adapted for children with DS (Communica tive Development Inventories, CDI-DS), analyzing the scores before and three months after the in tervention. The evaluated items were: Early comprehension, First sentences comprehension, Starting to speak, Vocabulary list, and Decontextualized language use (part 1) and total, early and late gestures (part 2). RESULTS: 21 children completed the workshops, with an average chronological age of 27.5 months and 19.8 months of cognitive age. 29% of the participants increased their scores in sentence comprehension, 62% in vocabulary production with gestures, 33% improved in vocabulary compre hension, 57% lost early gestures, and 43% increased late gestures production. CONCLUSIONS: Gestural communication training favors the communication skills development in a group of children with DS, mainly in the initial understanding and gesture production. There is important inter-individual variability, therefore is necessary to consider child to child recommendations.
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Assunto principal:
Linguagem Infantil
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Síndrome de Down
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Gestos
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Terapia da Linguagem
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Comunicação Manual
Tipo de estudo:
Observational_studies
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Prognostic_studies
Limite:
Female
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Humans
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Infant
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Male
Idioma:
Es
Revista:
Rev Chil Pediatr
Ano de publicação:
2019
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Chile
País de publicação:
Chile