This paper examines the development of relative clauses in early child language. It is argued that relative clauses constitute a network of related constructions that children acquire in a piecemeal bottom-up way, starting with relative clauses that are only little different from simple sentences which are gradually extended into more complex grammatical patterns. The acquisition process is dri...

The American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A is to be congratulated for taking a leadership role by publishing a number of papers challenging the status quo of prenatal counseling for Down syndrome and of care for children and adults with Down syndrome. Parents want to know about the future abilities and potential of their fetus with Down syndrome, not simply negative medical information tha...

The study investigated the relationship between coping strategies and psychological well-being among parents with Down syndrome children. The sample comprised of 120 parents (60 fathers, 60 mothers of diagnosed 60 children with Down syndrome) collected through purposive sampling. The study was an exploratory study and used co-relational research design. The study planned to investigate all poss...

A consultant system's main task is to provided helpful advice to the user. Consultant systems should not only find solutions to user problems, but should also inform the user of potential problems with these solutions. Expressing such potential caveats is a difficult process due to the many potential plan failures for each particular plan in a particular planning situation. A commonsense planne...

global health 2035, the report of the lancet commission on investing in health, laid out a bold, highly ambitious framework for making rapid progress in improving global public health outcomes. it showed that with the right health investments, the international community could achieve a “grand convergence” in global health—a reduction in avertable infectious, maternal, and child deaths down to ...

Young children learn the meanings of thousands of words by the time they can run down the street. Many efforts to explain this rapid development begin by assuming that the computational-level problem being solved is acquisition. Consequently, work in this line has sought to understand how children infer the meanings of words from cues in the communicative signals of the speakers around them. I ...

The patient was a Hindu male child of good family, aged thirteen months and the last child of a family of ten children, of whom one child had died in the fourth month of infancy and another of Spanish influenza in its eighth month in 1918, the rest of the family enjoying quite good health. In April 1923 the patient, who seemed in quite good health up to that time, got fever and diarrhoea which ...

BACKGROUND Anxiety is one of the most common reactions that parents show while understanding their children's intellectual disability due to Down syndrome. Anxiety leads parents not to develop appropriate relations with their children, subsequently their psychological health are at risk. The present study was aimed to determine the effect of problem-focused coping strategy training on psycholog...