Effects of dose frequency of early communication intervention in young children with and without Down syndrome.

Paul Yoder, Tiffany Woynaroski, Marc Fey, Steven Warren
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Abstract

Children with intellectual disability were randomly assigned to receive Milieu Communication Teaching (MCT) at one 1-hr session per week (low dose frequency, LDF) or five 1-hr sessions per week (high dose frequency, HDF) over 9 months ( Fey, Yoder, Warren, & Bredin-Oja, 2013 . Non-Down syndrome (NDS) and Down syndrome (DS) subgroups were matched on intelligence, mental age, and chronological age. The NDS group had significantly more growth in spoken vocabulary than the DS group. In the DS subgroup, the HDF group had more spoken vocabulary growth than the LDF group when IQ was controlled. In both etiological subgroups, the HDF group yielded greater vocabulary production outcomes than the LDF group for children who played functionally with a range of objects.

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Grants

  1. R01 DC007660/NIDCD NIH HHS
  2. HD002528/NICHD NIH HHS
  3. P30 DC005803/NIDCD NIH HHS
  4. P30DC005803/NIDCD NIH HHS
  5. P30 HD002528/NICHD NIH HHS

MeSH Term

Child Language
Child, Preschool
Communication
Communication Disorders
Down Syndrome
Early Intervention, Educational
Female
Humans
Infant
Language Development
Language Therapy
Male
Vocabulary

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