NCT00844259

Functional Communicative Profile of Children With Down Syndrome

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 15 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Sao Paulo · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 5 Years – 8 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The aim of this study was to verify the use of communicative functions by children with DS in two interaction conditions: interaction with therapist and interaction with parent.

Detailed description

Parents and caregivers' engagement on therapeutic process of children with Down syndrome (DS) is important for language and communication development. The identification of the communicative skills presented by these children as well as the context influence in their performance as interlocutors, will contribute to the design of therapeutic interventions. Pragmatics theories are helpful to language use studies, since it takes into account social and environmental aspects and considers adult-child interaction as a determinant factor for its occurrence.

Conditions

• Down Syndrome

Timeline

• Start date: 2006-07-01
• Primary completion: 2007-10-01
• Completion: 2007-10-01
• First posted: 2009-02-16
• Last updated: 2009-02-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil