title: Cognitive, lexical and morpho-syntactic profiles of Israeli children with Williams syndrome.
abstract: This paper investigated the cognitive, lexical and morpho-syntactic profiles of school-age Israeli children with confirmed diagnosis of Williams syndrome (WS). Children with retardation of unknown etiologies were individually matched to the children with WS. The findings suggest a cognitive profile that was similar to the profile reported for English-speaking children with WS, whose unique features were seen mainly in the discrepancy between verbal IQ and performance IQ and in relatively preserved face recognition abilities (Frangiskakis et al., 1996; Mervis et al., 1999). Contrary to previous findings, cognitive, lexical and morpho-syntactic profiles of individual children were rather similar, confirming the findings that were based on matched-pairs comparisons.
authors.affiliation: Psychology Department, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. msyonata@mscc.huji.ac.il
authors.forename: Yonata
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Levy
authors.forename: Talma
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Bechar
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000523:psychology; D007361:Intelligence Tests; D007557:Israel; D007802:Language; D007807:Language Tests; D008297:Male; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D013028:Space Perception / Q000502:physiology; D014705:Verbal Behavior / Q000502:physiology; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology; D018980:Williams Syndrome / Q000523:psychology*