Changes with age

Changes with age

How do we know whether possible changes with age are general across all groups, specific to people with intellectual disabilities, or specific to CdLS? This can be a difficult issue to tease apart, but often studies contain “comparison groups”.
For instance, we might compare the behaviour of people with CdLS with those of people with different genetic syndromes, both with similar and dissimilar levels of ability. The possible developments with age of the some of the issues identified in this article seem to be relatively specific to those with CdLS.