RE: Buckley: answer from Indian DS supplement research team

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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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