Characterising how socio‐cognitive abilities develop has been crucial to understanding the
wider development of typically developing children. It is equally central to understanding …

Children with Down syndrome face considerable intellectual challenges. Despite the
widespread belief that their social understanding is relatively “spared,” many also …

Background Social understanding is often thought to be relatively 'protected'in children with
Down's syndrome (DS) and to underlie the outgoing personality characteristically attributed …

Infants and young children with Down syndrome can be engaging and affectionate. It seems
that in the early months of life their personal relations may be relatively'spared'the effects of …

There are both psychological and biological reasons to expect that certain areas of learning
will present young children with Down syndrome with significant problems. Knowledge of …

Background Although the prevalence of mental illness and behaviour problems is lower in
adults with Down syndrome (DS) than in other populations with intellectual disabilities, they …

Background It has been well established that heterogeneous groups of young children with
mild intellectual disability are at considerable risk of becoming socially isolated from their …

The primary purpose of this investigation was to study cognitive and learning processes in
children with Down syndrome using a recently developed instrument, the Kaufman …

During the past several decades, more and more investigators have focused their efforts on
articulating the processes of ontogenesis in the perceptual, cognitive, socioemotional …

Background: Though the Down syndrome behavioural phenotype has been described as
involving relative strengths in visuo-spatial processing and sociability, and relative …