Teaching children with Down syndrome to read

Electropalatographic therapy for children and young people with Down's syndrome

“…Speech intervention which uses visual feedback may benefit people for whom visual skills are stronger than auditory skills, with visual feedback potentially most useful when the target articulation is hard to describe or see. It is well documented that the visual skills of individuals with DS are generally superior to auditory skills (Buckley and Bird, 1993). This is especially relevant for children with DS who are likely to have language impairments more severe than their level of cognitive impairment.…”

Habilidades e interacciones sociales de los niños con síndrome de Down en la educación ordinaria

“…Los estudios muestran que la inclusión beneficia a los niños con deficiencias en muchos aspectos, como en las habilidades de habla, la conducta social y el rendimiento acadé-mico 17,18 . Este hecho puede estar relacionado con la diversidad de estímulos ofrecidos en el entorno escolar, ya que un entorno exigente que fomenta diferentes posibilidades de descubrimiento facilita la reorganización y plasticidad cerebral de los sujetos 2 .…”

Imitation as an Element of Social Interaction of Children with Down Syndrome at School

“…The school can help the development of his/her individual identity and favor his/her future social relationships in a determinant way through relationships with the others. A disabled child's inclusion in regular schools is getting more and more common and the way it happens is closely related to local culture and policies (Luiz, 2009), that is the reason why it may happen in many different ways in cities, regions and countries (Buckley & Bird, 1998). Inclusion foresees school integration in a radical, complete and systematic way in which all students should be in regular school classrooms.…”

“…Social interaction is one of the most important tasks of a child's initial development because it is characterized by the expansion and improvement of one's social behaviors repertoire and, simultaneously, by a gradual understanding of values and rules which govern life in society (Del Prette & Del Prette, 2005). Studies have shown that the inclusion of disabled children is beneficial and promotes gains not only in terms of academic achievement but also in terms of skills related to speech and social behavior (Buckley & Bird, 1998;Buckey, Bird, Sacks & Archer, 2006).…”