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Vol. 73, No. 3, March 1993, pp. 179-181
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Alice M Shea

AM Shea, ScD, PT, is Associate for Research and Education, Department of Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy Services, Children's Hospital, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115

This excerpt was created in the absence of an abstract.

The last two decades have witnessed extraordinary changes in the lives of individuals with Down syndrome, beginning with the deinstitutionalization movement and continuing with the current effort toward inclusion in the mainstream of society. Connolly and colleagues have conducted an interdisciplinary study of the motor, mental, and social attainments of a group of children with Down syndrome who had participated in an early intervention program in the 1970s. The current report is the fourth in their series.1–3 They are to be commended for their perseverance in this difficult, but very worthwhile, task.

In designing the study, the authors also identified a group of children with Down syndrome who had not experienced early intervention for comparison of mental and social abilities with the study group. They acknowledge several factors that limit comparison of the two groups....


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