Down Syndrome Research and Practice Volume 1 Number 2 Pages 63-71
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Three of the teenagers, one girl and two boys, had no speech at all. For the 87 with speech, parents were asked about the length of utterance their children usually used. While 70% of all the girls and the older boys (over 14 years) regularly used utterances of five words or more, only half the younger boys did so. Conversely, 18% of the younger girls and 33 % of the younger boys were limited to communicating in three word utterances or less, and 10% of the older children were equally limited.
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