Narrative Abilities of Adults' With Down Syndrome as a Window to Their Morphosyntactic, Socio-Cognitive, and Prosodic Abilities.

摘要: Down syndrome (DS) is the most common developmental disorder characterized by mild to moderate intellectual disability. Several studies have reported poor language and prosodic skills contradictory results regarding individuals' with DS socio-cognitive skills, whereas of them focused on children DS. The present study attempts explore adults' language, abilities via use story-retellings. Twenty adults two groups TD children, one matched their expressive vocabulary (TD-EVT) other non-verbal mental age (TD-RCPM), took part in study. Participants listened a story while viewing wordless picture PowerPoint presentation computer screen, then, they were instructed retell pictures for second time. Each participant stories, "lively" "flat" prosody. Results revealed that performance was comparable presented TD-RCPM group, TD-EVT group performed significantly better almost all variables. Individuals' re-narrations, however, contained less complement clauses internal state terms (related or not related Theory Mind-ToM) compared re-narrations both control groups. In contrast, similarly comprehension questions main characters' ToM. prosody, three structure when prosody group's did contain enough terms, due inability recognizing them, but morphosyntactic abilities, which allow find proper means express states. Prosody facilitated participants re-narration. This suggests intervention programs based could support