occurs in this area before the age of seven. Though commonly stereotyped, children with DS are not more sociable than other children and often have a hard time fitting in with their normally developing peers. Individual factors of medical problems affect the growth of motor skills in a child with DS. Though at a much slower pace, the sensor motor development of children with DS is more like that of their nonretarded peers. They have a reduced short-term memory and a lot of trouble recalling auditory information. Children with DS may often develop an adjustment disorder because of the hard time they have functioning socially (Cody and Kamphaus, 1999).
             Jon Miller (1999) has reviewed the extensive literature on language development in children with DS. He also has conducted his own experiments to find if children with DS develop language the same way that normally developing children do. Many researchers believe that language production skills in children with DS develop much slower than language comprehension and other cognitive skills. Two reasons Mil
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