Question 1
Infants with Down syndrome are usually:
◦ delayed in both language and communicative skills, such as paying attention and responding to the speaker.
◦ delayed in language but show typical communicative skills in their interactions with others, such as paying attention and responding to the speaker.
◦ on schedule with early benchmarks like babbling but delayed with production of early words.
◦ competent in their language structure, but weak in social and communicative skills.
Question 2
The term
general language delay refers to a:
◦ secondary condition common in children with mental retardation or Down syndrome.
◦ condition which has no clearly identified cause and in which language is similar to that of younger children.
◦ condition which often results from poor language environments in bilingual families.
◦ maturational lag in language development that usually disappears as children enter the middle childhood years.
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