Sleep Disturbance and Expressive Language Development in Preschool-Age Children With Down Syndrome

Jamie O. Edgin; Ursula Tooley; Bianca Demara; Casandra Nyhuis; Payal Anand; Goffredina Spanò

doi:10.1111/cdev.12443

Sleep Disturbance and Expressive Language Development in Preschool-Age Children With Down Syndrome

Jamie O. Edgin, Ursula Tooley, Bianca Demara, Casandra Nyhuis, Payal Anand, Goffredina Spanò

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Recent evidence has suggested that sleep may facilitate language learning. This study examined variation in language ability in 29 toddlers with Down syndrome (DS) in relation to levels of sleep disruption. Toddlers with DS and poor sleep (66%, n = 19) showed greater deficits on parent-reported and objective measures of language, including vocabulary and syntax. Correlations between sleep and language were found in groups with equivalent medical and social backgrounds and after control for relevant behavioral comorbidities, including autism symptoms. These results emphasize the important role of quality sleep in all children's expressive language development, and may help increase our understanding of the etiology of language deficits in developmental disorders, potentially leading to new treatment approaches.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1984-1998
Number of pages	15
Journal	Child development
Volume	86
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12443
State	Published - Nov 1 2015

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