Habilitats sociocognitives i de funcionament executiu en nenes i nens amb síndrome de Down d'entre 4 i 12 anys
- Autores: Anna Amadó Codony
- Directores de la Tesis: Elisabet Serrat i Sellabona (dir. tes.), Eduard Vallés Majoral (dir. tes.)
- Lectura: En la Universitat de Girona ( España ) en 2014
- Idioma: catalán
- Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Ignasi Vila Mendiburu (presid.), Clara Andrés Roqueta (secret.), Olga Soler Vilageliu (voc.)
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- Tesis en acceso abierto en: TDX
- Resumen
The study of socio-cognitive skills, and their relationship with executive functions, has generated a large number of studies. In order to assess these skills in children with Down syndrome, we administered a battery of theory of mind tasks, a test of emotion comprehension, and several executive function tasks, to a group of 30 children with Down syndrome aged between 4 and 12 years. Two groups of children with typical development were used as control groups, one for chronological age and the other for linguistic level. The results indicate that participants with Down syndrome have similar socio-cognitive abilities compared to their peers with the same language level and thus, that these skills improve with increasing age. In executive functions we observed differences between the diverse components evaluated, and we can conclude that executive functions are good predictors for socio-cognitive abilities in children with Down syndrome
