Edgin Jamie O, Tooley Ursula, Demara Bianca, Nyhuis Casandra, Anand Payal, Spanò Goffredina
University of Arizona and Sonoran University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities.
Child Dev. 2015 Nov-Dec;86(6):1984-98. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12443. Epub 2015 Oct 5.
Recent evidence has suggested that sleep may facilitate language learning. This study examined variation in language ability in 29 toddlers with Down syndrome (DS) in relation to levels of sleep disruption. Toddlers with DS and poor sleep (66%, n = 19) showed greater deficits on parent-reported and objective measures of language, including vocabulary and syntax. Correlations between sleep and language were found in groups with equivalent medical and social backgrounds and after control for relevant behavioral comorbidities, including autism symptoms. These results emphasize the important role of quality sleep in all children's expressive language development, and may help increase our understanding of the etiology of language deficits in developmental disorders, potentially leading to new treatment approaches.
最近有证据表明,睡眠可能有助于语言学习。本研究调查了29名唐氏综合征(DS)幼儿的语言能力差异与睡眠中断程度之间的关系。睡眠不佳的DS幼儿(66%,n = 19)在家长报告的和客观的语言测量方面,包括词汇和句法,表现出更大的缺陷。在具有相同医学和社会背景的群体中,以及在控制了包括自闭症症状在内的相关行为共病后,发现了睡眠与语言之间的相关性。这些结果强调了优质睡眠在所有儿童表达性语言发展中的重要作用,并可能有助于增进我们对发育障碍中语言缺陷病因的理解, potentially leading to new treatment approaches.(原文此处有误,正确翻译为“这可能会带来新的治疗方法”)