Re: Buckley: answer from Indian DS supplement research team

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Yes that helps, thanks, !

I hope their next trial will be a double-blind study...

Buckley schrieb:

> Hi -

>

> Yes - I got a similar response, but still no results data.

>

> The Vineland Social Maturity Scale is a parent questionnaire that measures

(the child's) social, self-help skills, etc. The Binet-Kamath is (I believe) and

adapted version of the Stanford-Binet (composite IQ and sub-tests). The Seguin

Form Board is a non-verbal cognitive assessment tool. I suspect that the

Developmental Screening Test is the Denver Developmental Screening Test which

includes a variety of development measure useful for younger children. The

Gesell developmental schedules (I believe) look at motor, language and social

skills.

>

> All could be interesting measures.

>

> Hope this helps,

>

>

>

>

> [DownSyndromeInfoExchange] Buckley: answer from Indian DS

supplement research team

>

> Hello

>

> I just received a message from the Indian researchers. They say that

> the children were psychologically assessed with 5 different tests (see

> below). I have no clue as to the scientific validity of these tests as

> I am not a medical professional, but hopefully you're in a position to

> assess this information better than me.

> A medical doctor on a German DS list, obviously finding it hard to

> believe in children with DS profiting from nutritional intervention,

> argued that they might not have been well enough nourished to begin

> with, which was strongly denied by the research team.

>

> Regards,

> /Switzerland

>

>

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