Profiles of everyday executive functioning in young children with down syndrome

American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 303-318

  Daunhauer, Lisa A ^a   Fidler, Deborah J ^a   Hahn, Laura ^b   Will, Elizabeth ^a   Lee, Nancy Raitano ^c   Hepburn, Susan ^d  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Down syndrome; Executive function; Trisomy 21

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITION; DOWN SYNDROME; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE TEST; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS; TRISOMY 21;

COGNITION; DOWN SYNDROME; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; TRISOMY 21;

CHILD; DOWN SYNDROME; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84904345084     PISSN: 19447515     EISSN: 19447558     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1352/1944-7558-119.4.303     Document Type: Review

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