Product Description: Down Syndrome Living and Learning in the Community An invaluable guide to Down syndrome--for parents and health care officials alike Recent advances in medicine are allowing people with Down syndrome to live longer and more productively--while at the same time creating new medical and social challenges for them and the people who provide their care...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: As a detailed discussion of approaches to understanding the genetics and the underlying mechanisms of the different phenotypic characteristics of Down syndrome, this title also includes animal models of human chromosone 21 relevant to the phenotypic mapping of Down syndrome...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Focuses entirely on health care of people with Down Syndrome throughout their life span, from birth to old age. With the remarkable strides that have been made in research and medicine in the past decade, people with Down Syndrome are living longer and healthier lives and are actively participating in all aspects of community life. Health care is a critical factor in this process. The first section explores the genetic basis for Down Syndrome as well as discusses speech and language development in children; the second section highlights clinical advances in treatment.

Product Description: Covers the congenital abnormalities which characterize Down Syndrome. Featured treatment focuses on the nature of the abnormalities (including the head and face, brain formation, heart, gastrointestinal tract and dermatoglyphic alterations), their presence in experimental models of Down Syndrome and research bearing on their genesis and the causal impact of an extra chromosome 21...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book covers recent research with neurobiological and cognitive features of Down syndrome. There has been notable progress in understanding the psychobiological concomitants of Down syndrome. New data have pinpointed selective neurological defects, and recent research has revealed that it is possible to work with the supposedly intractable, irreversible deficits accompanying Down syndrome...read more

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Product Description: Book by Sinex, F. Marott