Fast Mapping of Words and Story Recall by Individuals With Down Syndrome.

This study compared adolescents with Down syndrome to nonverbal mental-age matched controls in their ability to fast map new noun vocabulary in spoken story contexts. Context for novel words varied within subjects in the distance between mentions (close-distant) and the ease of inferring a real word...

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Published in:	Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 47; no. 6; pp. 1286 - 1301
Main Authors:	Kay-Raining Bird, Elizabeth, Chapman, Robin S., Schwartz, Scott E.
Format:	Article
Published:	American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Dec2004
Subjects:	Down syndrome Recollection (Psychology) Verbal learning Psychology of people with intellectual disabilities
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost