Teaching spontaneous responses to a young child with Down syndrome

Spontaneity is an area of expressive language in children with Down syndrome that has received little attention in the literature. Nonverbal stimuli to which children emit spontaneous utterances do not include explicit adult vocalisations, rather the important features may include nonvocal components (e.g., a bird flying) or the action of another person (e.g., presenting a new toy). In this study, Kathleen Feeley and Emily Jones examine an intensive behavioural intervention to teach spontaneous responses to a child with Down syndrome. Read full article at www.down-syndrome.org/case-studies/2007