Mother's Interactions With Their Children With Down Syndrome in Taiwan and Japan : Maternal Conversational Style, Behavioral Problems, and Children's Expressive Language Development

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  • ダウン症をもつ子どもと母親との相互作用に関する台湾と日本の比較研究 : 母親の会話スタイルと問題行動と子どもの表出言語発達の関連

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The present study analyzed the relation between maternal conversational style, children's behavioral problems and children's expressive language development. The participants were children with Down syndrome and their mothers, including 16 Taiwanese (average age 57.75 months) children and 16 Japanese children (average age 59.44 months). Path analysis indicated the following: In Taiwan, maternal instructions suppressed children's language development and increased behavioral problems. Moreover, a low expressive language age which had been observed 2 years before the present study suppressed the children's expressive language development, and also increased behavioral problems. In Japan, maternal responses discouraged children's language development. This is entirely different from English-speaking countries, where mothers' responses act as language promoters. The suppression of language development apparently did not influence the behavioral problems of the Japanese children studied. When the rate of the mothers' responses to their children's initiations increased, the children had fewer behavioral problems, whereas when the total number of the mothers' utterances increased, the children had more behavioral problems.

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