The school achievement of children with Down's syndrome

The academic achievement of nine children with Down's syndrome who had participated in a systematic early intervention programme between the ages of two and five years was compared with the achievement of all other children with Down's syndrome of the same age in Auckland schools (n = 12). The children were between nine years six months and eleven years six months at the time of assessment. Results showed the first group to be significantly more advanced in reading and moderately more advanced in reading and moderately more advanced in numerical skills than the others.