Sleep Linked to Language Skills in Neurodevelopmental Disorders

28th January, 2020

31 January 2020, Down Syndrome, Fragile X, Language, Newsletter, SLP

[Source: Science Daily]

New research has discovered that Down’s syndrome, Fragile X syndrome and Williams syndrome are all linked to sleep disruption in very young children, and that sleep plays a crucial role in the development of these children’s language skills.

Led by Dr Dean D’Souza of Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) and published in the journal Research in Developmental Disabilities, it is the first cross-syndrome study to examine sleep, and the relationship between sleep and language, in very young children with these neurodevelopmental disorders.

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