DS Development
This type of speech can be delayed in kids with DS, starting around 25 months.
What is Two-Word Speech?
This is another name for Down Syndrome.
What is Trisomy 21?
This typical linguistic development stage, generally occurring at five to nine months of age, involves children producing regular non-word sound patterns.
What is the Babbling Stage?
This developmental phenomenon, in which children begin to learn that everything has a name and produce those names, can be less likely to occur in children with DS.
What is fast mapping?
This is the name of the man who first extensively researched DS.
Who is John Down?
This is the very first stage of linguistic development.
What is the Prelinguistic Stage?
The less frequent production of function words can result in a shorter MLU, or this term, in children with DS.
What is Mean Length Utterance?
A child with DS is born with 47 chromosomes, while a neurotypical child would be born with this many chromosomes.
What is 46?
"Mama sleep" is a phrase a child might utter in this developmental stage.
What is the Two-Word Stage?
These types of sounds can be more difficult for children with DS to produce. (Any of three answers.)
What are fricative, affricate, and liquid sounds?
One in this many babies is born with DS in the United States each year.
What is 700?
This stage is also known as the Holistic Stage.
What is the One Word Stage?
Phonological errors in speech made by children with DS can potentially be chalked up to this variance from neurotypical children.
What is facial structure variance?
A third copy of this chromosome results in Down Syndrome.
What is the 21st chromosome?
This is the last stage of linguistic development, wherein children have acquired adult-like phonology, morphology, and syntax.
What is the Later Multi-Word Stage?