Describe the typical language skills of a child with Down Syndrome.

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The Answer is General profile includes: (a) unbalanced receptive and expressive skills, with comprehension abilities being higher; (b) particular difficulty with syntactic and morphological aspects of language; (c) deficits in phonological awareness & auditory-verbal memory; (d) difficulty with higher-level pragmatic skills; (e) deficits in understanding and using abstract language; (f) visual & sensory processing deficits; and (g) relative weakness in expressive language skills, particularly syntax (e.g., produce fewer grammatical function words-copula & auxiliary "be," articles, & prepositions; produce fewer lexical verbs and bound morphemes).

Describe the Typical Language Skills of a Child with Down