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Occupational Therapy Insights


Apr 29, 2020

Children with Down syndrome (DS) have lower birth weights and abstract grow more slowly than children without DS. Advances in and increased access to medical care have improved the health and well-being of individuals with DS; however, it is unknown whether their growth has also improved. Our objective was to develop new growth charts for children with DS and compare them to older charts from the United States and more contemporary charts from the United Kingdom.