Improvement of Cognitive Functions in Children with Down Syndrome through the Bright Start Program

Autor:	Santiago Molina García, Elías Vived Conte
Rok vydání:	2004
Předmět:	Down syndrome education Developmental and Educational Psychology medicine Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Cognition Psychology medicine.disease Education Clinical psychology
Zdroj:	Journal of Cognitive Education and Psychology. 4:65-86
ISSN:	1810-7621 1945-8959
DOI:	10.1891/194589504787382956
Popis:	22 boys and girls with Down syndrome were given Bright Start, a cognitive curriculum for young children, using a version that included some special modifications for use with this population. Learners with Down syndrome showed consistent and sustained improvement in their cognitive processes and scores on intelligence tests, yielding effect sizes ranging from the .70s to 1.07. There are some problems in interpreting these results because the sample could not be selected randomly, and because there was no untreated control group; nevertheless, the gains that these learners made suggested the power of cognitive education, systematically applied, to enhance the cognitive development of children and youth with Down syndrome. This work should be repeated with random sampling from relatively homogeneous populations of learners with Down syndrome so the outcomes could be compared with those of other studies of the effectiveness of Bright Start.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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