Early Development Stimulation of Children with Down Syndrome – Building Neural Pathways while Exercising all Cognitive Functions

Abstract

This article brings up a difficult and yet fascinating subject of stimulating the development of a child with Down syndrome. Authors of the article discussed numerous difficulties associated with additional defects accompanying the syndrome. They also pointed at a false way of thinking about the stereotyped development of a child with the trisomy 21 in quite distant literature which isn’t answering the new neurobiological knowledge. Authors exercised their own clinical experimentation as well as reached for the literature on the subject and formulated the thesis that the stimulation should begin in the first days of living of the child with the Down’s syndrome, and when building the therapy program it is worthwhile using various methods and techniques, including linguistic. Authors described also exercises which can be used in therapy.