Explicit Oral Narrative Intervention for Students with Williams Syndrome

Explicit Oral Narrative Intervention for Students with Williams Syndrome

Narrative skills play a crucial role in organizing experience, facilitating social interaction and building academic discourse and literacy. They are at the interface of cognitive, social, and linguistic abilities related to school engagement. Despite their relative strengths in social and grammatical skills, students with Williams syndrome (WS) do not show parallel cognitive and pragmatic perf...

Oral findings in Williams-Beuren syndrome

BACKGROUND Williams-Beuren syndrome (WBS; OMIM #194050) is a developmental disorder characterized by congenital heart disease, intellectual disability, dysmorphic facial features and ophthalmologic abnormalities. Oral abnormalities are also described in clinical manifestations of the disease. This paper describes orofacial features in patients with WBS. MATERIAL AND METHODS Seventeen patients...

Williams syndrome--oral presentation of 45 cases.

Forty-five patients with Williams syndrome (WS) were evaluated for oral abnormalities. The mean age of the patients was 9.25 years, the median age was 6.7 years, and the majority (62.2%) were male. Hypodontia was present in 11.1% of the patients. Abnormal tooth morphology was noted in 12.5% of the primary dentitions and 40.7% of the permanent dentitions. With the exception of the primary mandib...

From scientific research to intervention in Williams syndrome

Cognitive Children With and Williams Behavioral Syndrome: Characteristics of Implications for Intervention Approaches

Portrayals of individuals with Williams syndrome (WS), a genetic disorder caused by a microdeletion of$25 genes on chromosome 7q11.23, have reached the general public through a variety of media formats. These descriptions are often paradoxical in nature with individuals with WS repeatedly described as demonstrating near-normal language despite the presence of significant intellectual disability...