Communication Performance of Children with down Syndrome: An ICF-CY Based Multiple Case Study

Autor/inn/en	Deckers, Stijn R. J. M.; Van Zaalen, Yvonne; Stoep, Judith; Van Balkom, Hans; Verhoeven, Ludo
Titel	Communication Performance of Children with down Syndrome: An ICF-CY Based Multiple Case Study
Quelle	In: Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 32 (2016) 3, S.293-311 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0265-6590
DOI	10.1177/0265659016630775
Schlagwörter	Communication Skills; Down Syndrome; Case Studies; Speech Language Pathology; Intervention; Classification; Young Children; Barriers; Profiles; Expressive Language; Vocabulary Development; Environmental Influences; Teaching Methods; Guidelines; Indo European Languages; Foreign Countries; Check Lists; Child Behavior; Adjustment (to Environment); Behavior Rating Scales; Interrater Reliability; Netherlands; Child Behavior Checklist; Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kommunikationsstil; 'Downs Syndrome; Down''s Syndrome'; Down-Syndrom; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Frühe Kindheit; Charakterisierung; Profilanalyse; Wortschatzarbeit; Environmental influence; Umwelteinfluss; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Richtlinien; Indoeuropäisch; Ausland; Checkliste; Interrater-Reliabilität; Niederlande
Abstract	Enhancing communication performance skills may help children with Down Syndrome (DS) to expand their opportunities for participation in daily life. It is a clinical challenge for speech-language pathologists (SLP) to disentangle various mechanisms that contribute to the language and communication problems that children with DS encounter. Without clarity of different levels of functioning, appropriate interventions may be poorly conceived or improperly implemented. In the present study, the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health-Children and Youth Version (ICF-CY) framework was used to classify contributing factors to communication performance in a multiple case study of six young children with DS. Within a comprehensive assessment, we identified individual and environmental facilitators and barriers, leading to an integrative profile of communication performance (IPCP) for each child. Whereas these six children shared a developmental, and/or expressive vocabulary age and/or level of communicative intent, the children faced similar but also unique personal and environmental factors that play an important role in their communication performance. Our data reveal that a combination of different factors may lead to the same language outcomes and vice versa, based on a unique pattern of interdependency of ICF-CY domains. Planning SLP interventions for enhancing communication performance in children with DS should therefore be based on a comprehensive view on the competences and limitations of every individual child and its significant communication partners. This evaluation should address facilitators and barriers in body functions, structures, activities, participation and environment, with a specific focus on individual strengths. The ICF-CY provides a useful framework for constructing an IPCP that serves this purpose. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01