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Executive function in down syndrome children in Bogotá, Colombia

The study aim was to characterize executive function in 114 children with Down syndrome from a reference institution in Bogotá, Colombia. Children were screened with the Battelle Developmental Inventory to establish their developmental age. Eighty children with an equivalent mental age of 2–5.11 yea...

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Autores principales: Manrique-Niño, Julián, Díaz-Forero, Andrés, Velez-van Meerbeke, Alberto, Ramírez-Guerrero, Sofía, Florez-Esparza, Gabriela, Talero-Gutiérrez, Claudia
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Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7701347/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33294710
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e05585
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author Manrique-Niño, Julián
Díaz-Forero, Andrés
Velez-van Meerbeke, Alberto
Ramírez-Guerrero, Sofía
Florez-Esparza, Gabriela
Talero-Gutiérrez, Claudia
author_facet Manrique-Niño, Julián
Díaz-Forero, Andrés
Velez-van Meerbeke, Alberto
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description The study aim was to characterize executive function in 114 children with Down syndrome from a reference institution in Bogotá, Colombia. Children were screened with the Battelle Developmental Inventory to establish their developmental age. Eighty children with an equivalent mental age of 2–5.11 years were allocated to groups of 20 according to their mental age. Parents and teachers then completed the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function-Preschool Version. We found a high variability and a low correlation between parent and teacher ratings. In general, children showed a specific profile characterized by weakness in the domains of working memory, shifting, planning, and organization, and strengths in the emotional control domain. These findings indicate a characteristic pattern of executive function in children with Down syndrome. This profile could form the basis for the planning of clinical assessment programs.
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spelling pubmed-77013472020-12-07 Executive function in down syndrome children in Bogotá, Colombia Manrique-Niño, Julián Díaz-Forero, Andrés Velez-van Meerbeke, Alberto Ramírez-Guerrero, Sofía Florez-Esparza, Gabriela Talero-Gutiérrez, Claudia Heliyon Research Article The study aim was to characterize executive function in 114 children with Down syndrome from a reference institution in Bogotá, Colombia. Children were screened with the Battelle Developmental Inventory to establish their developmental age. Eighty children with an equivalent mental age of 2–5.11 years were allocated to groups of 20 according to their mental age. Parents and teachers then completed the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function-Preschool Version. We found a high variability and a low correlation between parent and teacher ratings. In general, children showed a specific profile characterized by weakness in the domains of working memory, shifting, planning, and organization, and strengths in the emotional control domain. These findings indicate a characteristic pattern of executive function in children with Down syndrome. This profile could form the basis for the planning of clinical assessment programs. Elsevier 2020-11-26 /pmc/articles/PMC7701347/ /pubmed/33294710 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e05585 Text en © 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Talero-Gutiérrez, Claudia
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