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Caregiver Report of Executive Functioning in a Population-Based Sample of Young Children With Down Syndrome
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Caregiver Report of Executive Functioning in a Population-Based Sample of Young Children With Down Syndrome

Nancy Raitano Lee, Deborah J. Fidler, Audrey Blakeley-Smith, Lisa Daunhauer, Cordelia Robinson and Susan L. Hepburn
American journal on intellectual and developmental disabilities, v 116(4), pp 290-304
01 Jul 2011
PMID: 21740257
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Abstract

Education & Educational Research Education, Special Life Sciences & Biomedicine Rehabilitation Science & Technology Social Sciences
The current study describes everyday executive function (EF) profiles in young children with Down syndrome. Caregivers of children with Down syndrome (n = 26; chronological ages = 4-10 years; mental ages = 2-4 years) completed the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function Preschool (BRIEF-P; G. A. Gioia, K. A. Espy, & P. K. Isquith, 2003), a caregiver report measure of everyday/functional EF skills in multiple domains. On the BRIEF-P, elevations were noted on a global EF composite as well as the Working Memory and Plan/Organize scales in particular (relative to norms developed for typically developing children of a similar mental age). These results suggest a specific pattern of EF weaknesses in young children with Down syndrome, consistent with the extant literature that has focused primarily on older individuals who have been tested using laboratory EF tasks.

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