Weak hand preference in children with Down syndrome is associated with language deficits

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 242-250

  Groen, Margriet A ^a   Yasin, I ^b   Laws, G ^c   Barry, J G ^d   Bishop, D V M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Down syndrome; Hand preference; Hemispheric specialisation; Increased randomness hypothesis; Language; Vocabulary

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN SYNDROME; HANDEDNESS; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LEFT HANDEDNESS; LINGUISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEMORY; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SCHOOL CHILD; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHILD; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; IMAGINATION; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDER; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REFERENCE VALUE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH DISORDER; STATISTICS; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICULATION DISORDERS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHILD; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; NEUROLINGUISTIC PROGRAMMING; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDERS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REFERENCE VALUES; SEMANTICS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; VOCABULARY; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 41949090393     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: 10982302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.20291     Document Type: Article

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