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In Article 41, we knew that social development refers to the social skills with which a person interacts with others, the most important of which are:
Social understanding and empathy, friendship, playing and leisure skills, social and personal dependence, and appropriate social behavior.
And that children with Down syndrome have the skills of social understanding, empathy and social interaction to the extent that allows them to be developed and acquired more during life, which facilitates their integration into society and provides them with a better life opportunity. And that most of them have an appropriate social age, but some of them may exhibit difficult behaviors that cause family pressure and affect educational and social integration.
And that positive and safe friendship with others is necessary to improve their quality of life, and that parents and teachers should provide a healthy environment that helps them form those friendships during childhood and adolescence with their peers and with others without disabilities.
In this article, we review four aspects that affect the social development of children with Down syndrome, which are:
Mood and personality, cognitive and language abilities, family environment, expectations and measures.
First: Mood and Personality:
It is normal for children’s behavior and social development to be affected by mood and personality. Some children are anxious, while others are calm and gentle. Some are friendly and sociable, and others are shy and find it difficult to establish friendships.
The term temperament is used to describe a child’s basic behavioral pattern, and this behavior can be determined by collecting information about activity level, regularity of biological functions such as hunger, sleep and bowel movement, willingness to accept new people in new situations, adaptation to changes in routine, sensitivity to noise, bright lights and other stimuli, and whether the child’s mood tends to be happy or unhappy most of the time, the intensity of responses, susceptibility to distraction, and degree of constancy.
Researchers have relied on these traits to determine a range of mood patterns that develop in children at different ages, including degrees of ease and difficulty.
Studies of Down syndrome have revealed that temperament and personality traits among children with Down syndrome, do not differ from the range of characteristics of other children, and that the proportion of children who were classified in each of these patterns is similar to the amount found in other children.
for example:
In a study of children with Down syndrome aged 12-36 months, 42% were classified as easy, 16% difficult, 13% slow to warm up, and 29% midline.
This is compared to a study conducted on non-disabled children, in which it was found that 38% of them were classified as easy type, 12% difficult, 6% slow to warm up, and 44% in the midline.
These ratios show that:
1 – Similarity of temperaments in children with Down syndrome with those of other children,
2 – There are individual differences in temperaments between children with Down syndrome, and therefore the idea that these children are the same is wrong, as they are like other children, and it is normal for some of them to face social difficulties compared to others, as a result of differences in temperaments.
Some children and adolescents with Down syndrome, like others, face additional difficulties such as autism spectrum disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety and depression, which must be diagnosed and treated appropriately, as any of these additional problems will affect social functioning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Article 43 In Article 41, we knew that social development refers to the social skills with which a person interacts with others, the most important of which are:Social understanding and empathy, friendship, playing and leisure skills, social and personal dependence, and appropriate social behavior.And that children with Down syndrome have the skills of social understanding, empathy and social interaction to the extent that allows them to be developed and acquired more during life, which facilitates their integration into society and provides them with a better life opportunity. And that most of them have an appropriate social age, but some of them may exhibit difficult behaviors that cause family pressure and affect educational and social integration.And that positive and safe friendship with others is necessary to improve their quality of life, and that parents and teachers should provide a healthy environment that helps them form those friendships during childhood and adolescence with their peers and with others without disabilities.In this article, we review four aspects that affect the social development of children with Down syndrome, which are:Mood and personality, cognitive and language abilities, family environment, expectations and measures.First: Mood and Personality:It is normal for children’s behavior and social development to be affected by mood and personality. Some children are anxious, while others are calm and gentle. Some are friendly and sociable, and others are shy and find it difficult to establish friendships.The term temperament is used to describe a child’s basic behavioral pattern, and this behavior can be determined by collecting information about activity level, regularity of biological functions such as hunger, sleep and bowel movement, willingness to accept new people in new situations, adaptation to changes in routine, sensitivity to noise, bright lights and other stimuli, and whether the child’s mood tends to be happy or unhappy most of the time, the intensity of responses, susceptibility to distraction, and degree of constancy.Researchers have relied on these traits to determine a range of mood patterns that develop in children at different ages, including degrees of ease and difficulty.Studies of Down syndrome have revealed that temperament and personality traits among children with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6769,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[]},"categories":[2,38],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n