Evidence is reviewed for a developmentally‐emerging behavioral phenotype in individuals
with Down syndrome that includes significant delay in nonverbal cognitive development …

Down syndrome (DS) is associated with abnormalities in multiple organ systems and a
characteristic phenotype that includes numerous behavioral features. Language, however …

In this timely and comprehensive text, Cesare Cornoldi and Tomaso Vecchi describe their
recently developed experimental approach to the investigation of visuo-spatial cognition …

Most children master the basic structures of their native language by the age of four, together
with an array of cognitive and social accomplishments that appear to be necessary for …

Background Narrative ability is crucial for social participation in everyday and school life but
involves different language abilities such as vocabulary and morpho-syntax. This is …

The Handbook of Child Language Disorders provides an in-depth, comprehensive, and
state-of-the-art review of current research concerning the nature, assessment, and …

Longitudinal change in syntax comprehension and production skill, measured four times
across a 6-year period, was modeled in 31 individuals with Down syndrome who were …

During the autumn of 2002, just a few weeks before we would discover about her disease,
Liz and I were walking through Rome, talking about work and a dream we had. We wanted …

Background: Previous research has emphasized the importance of gesture in early
communicative development. These studies have reported that gestures are used frequently …

To investigate the relationship between language acquisition and cognition, we evaluated
linguistic abilities in 12 Italian-speaking children with Williams syndrome (WS) and 12 with …