Trisomy 21
eBook - PDF

Trisomy 21

What we can learn from people with Down syndrome

  1. 212 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Trisomy 21

What we can learn from people with Down syndrome

About this book

For a long time, it was assumed that a genetic disposition such as trisomy 21 enables predictions to be made about overall personality development. But, who could have ever imagined that people with trisomy 21 (Down syndrome) would also be capable of earning a university degree? We studied 1, 294 people with trisomy 21. The results showed that people with trisomy 21 benefit more from abstract learning than their neurotypical counterparts. Two-year-olds with the syndrome first learn to read and only then to speak and will understand algebra better than arithmetic. Ignorance of neurodiversity inevitably leads to learning difficulties when these people are forced to learn at the same pace as others. This applies to autism and trisomy 21 to the same extent. That is why this book advocates the recognition of trisomy 21 as a variant in the spectrum of human neurodiversity.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Body
  6. Foreword
  7. I. Genes and society
  8. II. The brain and intelligence
  9. III. Neurotransmitters and neuroenhancement
  10. IV. Neurodiversity and attention
  11. V. Attention and memory
  12. VI. Imitation and motor learning | Alfred Christoph Röhm
  13. VII. Speech and thought | Kim Lena Hurtig-Bohn
  14. VIII. Cognitive development and mathematics | Torben Rieckmann
  15. IX. Communication and emotion | Angela Kalmutzke
  16. Afterword
  17. Literature