Social Communicative Revision Behaviors in Children With Down Syndrome

Abstract

The relationship between maternal responses and child revisions was examined in two Down syndrome child-mother dyads. A time series design was used to determine whether a reduction in maternal responding resulted in an increase in child revisions. The results suggested that the percent of revision behaviors used by children with Down syndrome may, in part, be contingent on the level of responding exhibited by their mothers. As the percent of maternal utterances was experimentally decreased, the percent of child revision behaviors increased significantly. Conversely, as the mothers returned to their initial levels of responding, the children decreased their rate of revision behaviors.

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