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Prosodic skills in Spanish-speaking adolescents and young adults with Down syndrome

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dc.contributor.authorLópez-Riobóo, Elena
dc.contributor.authorMartínez Castilla, Pastora
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-04T07:44:27Z
dc.date.available2024-10-04T07:44:27Z
dc.date.issued2023-12-28
dc.description.abstractBackground Down syndrome (DS) is a neurodevelopmental disorder of genetic origin with a cognitive-behavioural profile that distinguishes it from other syndromes. Within this profile, language difficulties are particularly marked, having been more studied in childhood than in adulthood. More generally, there is a paucity of research on the prosodic skills of individuals with DS, despite the relevance of this linguistic component for effective communication. Aims This study aimed to analyse, for the first time, the prosodic profile of Spanish-speaking teenagers and young adults with DS. We hypothesized that participants with DS would show significantly lower skills for the perception and production of prosodic functions and forms when compared to peers with intellectual disability (ID) of unknown origin. We also hypothesized that teenagers and young adults with DS would have better prosody perception than prosody production. Methods & Procedures The final sample included in the study comprised 28 Spanish-speaking teenagers and young adults with DS and 29 teenagers and young adults with other ID matched on chronological age and nonverbal cognition. Their prosodic skills were tested by means of the Profiling Elements of Prosody for Speech and Communication battery. This battery allows for the separate evaluation of the comprehension and expression of the communicative functions of prosody and the discrimination and production of the forms that carry out such functions. Outcomes & Results In the prosody function tasks, which are the most adaptive tasks for the communicative process, we found, as expected, significantly lower scores on the turn-end, chunking, and focus tasks in the group with DS. However, no significant between-group differences were found for the affect tasks. Participants with DS also had significantly lower scores on the prosodic form tasks than participants with other ID. The results of the comparison between prosodic perception and production skills showed that a generalization about a better profile in comprehension versus production is not possible and that there is a dependence on the demands of the prosodic task undertaken. Conclusions & Implications The findings contribute to the ongoing development of the language profile of teenagers and young adults with DS and imply the need to design prosodic intervention programs based on their specific profile.en
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dc.identifier.citationLópez-Riobóo, E., & Martínez-Castilla, P. (2024). Prosodic skills in Spanish-speaking adolescents and young adults with Down syndrome. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 59(4), 1284-1295. https://doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.13001
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.13001
dc.identifier.issn1368-2822; e-ISSN: 1460-6984
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/23897
dc.journal.issue4
dc.journal.titleInternational Journal of Language & Communication Disorders
dc.journal.volume59
dc.language.isoen
dc.page.final1295
dc.page.initial1284
dc.publisherWiley
dc.relation.centerFacultades y escuelas::Facultad de Psicología
dc.relation.departmentPsicología Evolutiva y de la Educación
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/deed.es
dc.subject61 Psicología
dc.subject.keywordsProsodyen
dc.subject.keywordsDown Syndromeen
dc.subject.keywordsIntellectual Disabilityen
dc.subject.keywordsClinical Assessmenten
dc.subject.keywordsSpanishen
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