Patterns of Cognition, Communication, and Adaptive Behavior in Children With Developmental Disabilities

Abstract

Young children with developmental disabilities (DD) exhibit a range of strengths and weaknesses in cognitive, language, and adaptive skills. Identifying individual patterns of abilities across these domains is important for informing interventions. This study examines how 129 toddlers with significant developmental delays and less than 10 spoken words perform across different developmental domains and assessment methods (i.e., caregiver report and clinician-administered tests). Children exhibited statistically and clinically meaningful strengths and weaknesses across developmental domains, which may have important implications for differential interventions. Caregiver-reported and clinician-rated measures of cognition, language and adaptive functioning were highly related. However, the relation between caregiver report and clinician ratings was weaker for a subgroup of children with relatively more limited expressive language compared to other children in the sample.

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“…13,14 These population-level biases may lead to reduced access to appropriate education environments and appropriate equipment needs. 15…”

“…Furthermore, we hypothesized that the performance would be proportional to parental assessment of adaptive behavior, an approach previously validated in children with general developmental disabilities (including multiple genetic conditions, and cerebral palsy). 15…”

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“…https://www.hsag.co.za Open Access expressive language, receptive skills, motor skills and motivation (Albert et al 2021).…”

“…Some effects related to the likelihood that a child will display the cognitive and behavioural phenotypes considered to be typical of children with intellectual disability. These include specific patterns of strengths and weaknesses in information processing, social interaction, expressive language, receptive skills, motor skills and motivation (Albert et al 2021 ).…”