Young children with Down syndrome and their parents can face numerous challenges arising form developmental, cognitive and communication impairments leading to behaviour that is outside the norm for the child's chronological age. Communication development can be more delayed than cognitive development, leading to behaviour arising from frustration with communication.
Parents and early childhood professionals will find this paper useful in providing strategies to support the child, eliminate or prevent behaviour that is often described as "challenging", and describing real cases where particular strategies have been applied in managing particular behaviours:
Kathleen Feeley and Emily Jones, Strategies to address challenging behaviour in young children with Down syndrome, Down Syndrome Research and Practice, Volume 12, Issue 2, October 2008
It is one of many excellent resources freely available online from Down Syndrome Education International's online library: www.down-syndrome.org
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