Early Communicative Development in Williams Syndrome: A Longitudinal Case Study
Eliseo Diez-Itza, Florencia Llona, Verónica Martínez · 2023
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Description
Eliseo Diez-Itza, Florencia Llona, and Veronica Martinez follow one baby with Williams syndrome through his first eighteen months of communication, in work from twenty twenty-three. Williams syndrome children often speak late yet end relatively verbal. Early precursors like joint attention and pointing were barely tracked. Seven observation sessions, mostly at home, chart the baby's path. A standard development inventory checks progress twice yearly.
The baby runs five to six months behind age expectations. Object attention beats face attention, though faces gain ground. Pointing never appears within the watched window at all. First words arrive before the pointing gesture emerges. That reversed order marks an atypical language runway. Early care can target gestures before words in such profiles.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Eliseo Diez-Itza, Florencia Llona, Verónica Martínez |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 55 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |