RETT-SYNDROME (RS) AND PROFOUND INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY - COGNITIVE AND COMMUNICATIVE SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES

Authors
WOODYATT G OZANNE A
Citation
G. Woodyatt et A. Ozanne, RETT-SYNDROME (RS) AND PROFOUND INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY - COGNITIVE AND COMMUNICATIVE SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES, European child & adolescent psychiatry, 6, 1997, pp. 31-32
Citations number
9
Journal title
European child & adolescent psychiatry → ACNP
ISSN journal
10188827
Volume
6
Year of publication
1997
Supplement
1
Pages
31 - 32
Database
ISI
SICI code
1018-8827(1997)6:<31:R(APID>2.0.ZU;2-R
Abstract
The communicative and cognitive behaviours of a group of 10 girls with Rett syndrome (RS) were compared with those of a group of girls with non-Rett profound intellectual disability (NPID). The results suggest that the girls with RS were a comparatively homogenous group demonstra ting similar cognitive patterns, and fewer communicative behaviours, c ommunicative functions, and total numbers of inferred communicative ac ts than the NPID group. Fewer girls with RS were intentionally communi cating to communicative partners. Implications of these findings will be discussed in this paper.