People with Down Syndrome show a specific developmental profile with strengths in social understanding and visual learning and memory, and more difficulties with motor processes, speech and language, and auditory-vocal short-term memory. It is important that parents, practitioners and teachers know this and adapt interventions and educational approaches to take account of this particular profile. This is the only book to date that explains the developmental profile of people with Down Syndrome from its many different angles. It covers a range of perspectives, including the biology, psychology, speech and language, health care, and social competence of both children and adults with Down Syndrome. All the information is gathered and placed in the context of the neuro-genetic science that is developing around this area.

People with Down Syndrome show a specific developmental profilewith strengths in social understanding and visual learning andmemory, and more difficulties with motor processes, speech andlanguage, and auditory-vocal short-term memory. It is importantthat parents, practitioners and teachers know this and adaptinterventions and educational approaches to take account of thisparticular profile.This is the only book to date that explains the developmentalprofile of people with Down Syndrome from its many differentangles. It covers a range of perspectives, including the biologypsychology, speech and language, health care, and social competenceof both children and adults with Down Syndrome. All the informationis gathered and placed in the context of the neuro-genetic sciencethat is developing around this area.

List of contributors.Foreword.1 Specifi city in Down Syndrome: A New Therapeutic Criterion(J. Perera).2 Down Syndrome: From Pathology to Pathogenesis (Krystyna E.Wisniewski, Elizabeth Kida, Adam A. Golabek, Mariusz Walus, AusmaRabe, Sonia Palminiello, Giorgio Albertini).3 Ageing and Susceptibility to Alzheimer's Disease in DownSyndrome (David Patterson).4 Down Syndrome Specifi city in Health Issues (Alberto RasoreQuartino).5 Neuropsychological Aspects of Down Syndrome (LynnNadel).6 The Contribution of Memory to the Behavioural Phenotype ofDown Syndrome (Darlynne A. Devenny).7 Specifi c Language Profi les in Down Syndrome and otherGenetic Syndromes of Mental Retardation (Jean-AdolpheRondal).8 Total versus Partial Specifi city in the Behaviour of Personswith Down Syndrome (Robert M. Hodapp).9 The Emergence of a Syndrome-specifi c Personality Profi le inYoung Children with Down Syndrome (Deborah J. Fidler).10 Learning Diffi culties in Down Syndrome (Giovanni MariaGuazzo).11 Off to a Good Start: Early Intervention for Infants and YoungChildren with Down Syndrome and their Families (DonnaSpiker).12 Family Setting in Down Syndrome (Salvatore Soresi, LauraNota, Lea Ferrari).Conclusions.Index.