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Profiles of Everyday Executive Functioning in Young Children With Down Syndrome

Year: 2014
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: We investigated executive functioning (EF) in children with Down syndrome (DS; n = 25) and typically developing (TD) children matched for mental age (MA; n = 23) using the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function-Preschool. We sought to (1) compare children with DS to a developmentally matched control group, and (2) to characterize the EF profile of children with DS. Across teacher and parent reports, significant deficits in working memory and planning were observed in the DS group. Parents, but not teachers, of children with DS also reported difficulties in inhibitory control relative to the comparison group. Results extend earlier findings regarding EF impairments in children with DS. The complementary role inhibitory control may play in this profile is discussed.
DOI: 10.1352/1944-7558-119.4.303
Authors: Lisa A. Daunhauer, Deborah J. Fidler, Laura Hahn, Elizabeth Will, Nancy Raitano Lee, Susan Hepburn
Institutions: Colorado State University, University of Kansas, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute of Mental Health, University of Colorado Anschutz, University of Colorado Denver
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Open Access status: bronze
Funders: U.S. Department of Education, Emory University, National Institutes of Health, School of Medicine, Emory University, National Center for Research Resources, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Awards: G2690141148, Definition and Development of the Phenotype of Autism, Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, G6075476403, G8137263228, Colorado Clinical and Translational Science Institute (UL1)
OpenAlex ID: W2133487336
FWCI: 9.576
Cites: 71
Cited by: 134
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