Down
Syndrome: The Measure of Intelligence
Have
you ever thought about if kids or adults with down syndrome have intelligence?
Well, I have, and I have recently read an article about Down Syndrome and if
kids that have it are intellectually inclined like kids without it. To find this
out people with Down Syndrome have to take IQ tests and then compare them with IQ
tests of kids and adults without Down Syndrome. In the article I read it tells
you all about intelligence of Down Syndrome kids.
The
article I read was a blog titled Down Syndrome: The Measure of Intelligence. What
I got from it was a mother was blogging about her son’s ability and having Down
Syndrome could affect how he reacts to taking an IQ test. She says that kids,
not only her son, that are going to take the IQ would not react as well as
other kids. The results from their IQ tests would not be accurate. She wrote
that they wouldn’t be accurate because kids and adults with Down Syndrome wouldn’t
react the same to taking the IQ Test as kids and adults that don’t have Down Syndrome.
This
mother claims that the people giving the IQ tests to the kids and adults that
have Down Syndrome don’t understand that they sometimes cannot explain how they
answer or even how to answer the question. When this happens the kids and
adults then get docked points for not having the ability to answer the question
or explain why they answered how they answered. She wants people who study this
very thing to come up with an alternative test for people who have Down Syndrome,
so they have a fair advantage to taking the IQ test.
She
discovered through a Google research that the Down Syndrome Research Group at
the University of Arizona is working on finding and developing a different form
of the IQ test meant for kids and adults with Down Syndrome to take. She found that
knowing this was big news that someday there might be an IQ test meant for kids
and adults with Down Syndrome. She was so excited that she contacted the
professor that oversaw this develop of the tests. The professors name was Jamie
Edgin, she is a developmental psychologist and one of the groups’ lead
researchers. This mother than had an interview with Jamie Edgin about her
research. In Jamie’s research she found that kids and adults with Down Syndrome
would take a different test they might be able to actually figure out there
real IQ.
In
conclusion, kids and adults with Down Syndrome would actually take a different
version of the IQ test they might be able to actually figure out there real IQ.
I found this super interesting because I believe that some kids and adults with
Down Syndrome are really smart but that can’t express how smart they are
because their disability doesn’t allow them too. Knowing that in the near
future there might be a test that would show how smart kids and adults with
Down Syndrome are is amazing.
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