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Intellectual and adaptive functioning in individuals with Down syndrome in relation to age and environmental
F R Brown1, M K Greer, E H Aylward
1Department of Pediatrics, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston.
Pediatrics
|March 1, 1990
Abstract:
The cognitive and adaptive capacities of 130 individuals with Down syndrome were investigated as a function of age and environmental placement. Intellectual deterioration occurred whether individuals resided at home or in an institutional setting. Social/adaptive deterioration also occurred but with the least decline for those individuals who resided in institutional settings.