The Oxford Handbook of Down Syndrome and Development

Jacob A. Burack is Professor of School and Applied Child Psychology and Human Development in the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology at McGill University. He is the founder and director of the McGill Youth Study Team (MYST), the scientific director of the Summit Center for Education, Research, and Training (SCERT), and was a founding co-investigator of the Autism Research Training (ART) and National Aboriginal Mental Health Research (NAMHR) networks that were funded by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research. Together with his students, Dr. Burack's work is guided by the MYST motto of "excellence in the study and education of all children."Jamie Edgin is Associate Professor and Director of the Cognition and Neural Systems Program in the Department of Psychology at the University of Arizona. Her area of expertise is sleep and neuropsychological development in typical and atypical development, including over 20 years of work with individuals with Down syndrome. She hasserved on the science advisory board of NDSS since 2016. Dr. Edgin currently directs the University of Arizona Public Policy Fellowship in the Sonoran UCEDD, focused on policy development and advocacy for persons with developmental disabilities. Leonard Abbeduto is Director of the MIND Institute, the Tsakopoulos-Vismara Endowed Chair, and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, Davis. His current research is focused on understanding variation in language outcomes in various conditions associated with intellectual disability, the measurement of treatment effects in clinical trials, and the use of distance technology to deliver behavioral treatment. He is the Director of the NICHD-funded MIND Institute Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center. He also co-directs the UC Davis Redwood SEED Scholars program, which is a 4-year, residential, inclusive college program for individuals with intellectual disabilities.

The Oxford Handbook of Down Syndrome and Development comprises cutting-edge and provocative integrative reviews of essential theory and research about persons with Down syndrome at various stages of the lifespan. The volume opens with a brief section on historic and contemporary scientific approaches to understanding the development of persons with Down syndrome with subsequent sections on social development and family relations, cognition and neuropsychology, and comorbid conditions.

Section 1: Historic and Contemporary Scientific Approaches