Communication on Educational-therapeutic method in language development in children with trisomy 21: A review
Abstract
This paper provides general information on the language of children with Trisomy 21, on their development and on the methods of educational-therapeutic intervention. I defined the means of applying of Total Communication in the development of communication and of the language in 21- trisomic children. Mental retardation in 21-trisomic children impairs learning ability in many fields, with a negative impact on children’s communication ability; these communication possibilities should be improved throughout their entire life. This paper highlights the methods of intervention using Total Communication, the evolution throughout therapy; the therapy will continue in order to attain the objectives determined within the complex educational therapy program. An early educative intervention contributes to the systematisation of all chances of obtaining a more rapid psychological development of 21-trisomic children until the level becomes easy to achieve.
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Introduction
Trisomy 21 (Down Syndrome) represents a chromosomal condition caused by the presence of an extra 21 chromosome. Chromosomes are microscopic structures present in each cell within each body tissue and they carry the plan of all characteristics we inherit. People have 23 pairs of chromosomes in each cell, 46 in total; a set of 23 chromosomes is inherited from the father, while the other set of 23 from the mother. The name “Down” comes from the English physician Langdon Down, the first to describe this syndrome in 1866, approximately 100 years before this extra chromosome was discovered.
Conclusion
In the process of normalizing the lives of these children the lives of these children and for their social, school and professional intervention, early intervention is the first step to make for a successful rehabilitation therapy.
Early intervention comprises activities specific to speech therapy, social work, medicine, psychopedagogy, unfolding in the first 4-5 years in the life of a child born with a certain deficiency.
The early intervention activity for Trisomic children comprises a series of aspects such as parent counselling, proper explaining of the genetic condition, counselling for the medical issues that may emerge in case of these children, inclusion of children within a psychopedagogical program of complex intervention, as well as other activities. All of the aforementioned activities are possible through the collaboration of a team of specialists.