Evidence for increased mental capacity with age in Down's Syndrome.
In a previous study, the authors reported that Down's Syndrome children were deficient in short-term memory for colour compared with severely subnormal controls. The present study provides evidence that two-thirds of such children aged fifteen to seventeen years could perform tasks which no six-to-eight-year-old could, which suggests they might benefit from educational experiences which were of no value at a younger age.
D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D001288:Attention; D002648:Child; D003118:Color Perception; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological; D004314:Down Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis*; D004495:Education of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities; D005556:Form Perception; D006801:Humans