Chronological age and receptive vocabulary of persons with Down syndrome.

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Université Charles De Gaulle-Lille III, Laboratoire des Acquisitions Cognitives et Linguistiques, Tourcoing, France.

Published: June 1998

The Test de Vocabulaire en Images (the French version of the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test) and the Columbia Mental Maturity Scale were administered to 29 participants with Down syndrome aged 6.1 yr. to 13.0 yr. Analysis indicated a significant association between chronological age and the Test de Vocabulaire en Images mental age. This finding seems to suggest that the relationship between chronological age and the receptive vocabulary of persons with mental retardation is not specific to etiology.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1998.82.3.723DOI Listing

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