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Reflecting the enormous changes that have taken place in our knowledge and understanding of developmental disorders, this groundbreaking international volume brings this vast and complex field together for the first time. The editors have collected together the world’s leading academic scholars and clinicians, to explore how current research across a range of different disciplines can inform academic knowledge and clinical practice and help to improve the lives of individuals and their families.The SAGE Handbook of Developmental Disorders is a central reference in the field for all academics, researchers, clinicians and advanced students involved in the study of developmental disorders, including those in clinical psychology, child psychiatry, child mental health, child genetics and pediatrics, speech language pathology, and developmental disabilities and special education.
Fragile X Syndrome: Life Course and Strategies for Intervention
Fragile X Syndrome: Life Course and Strategies for Intervention
Introduction
In Chapter 3, the authors gave a detailed insight into the medical background, epidemiology, and pharmacotherapy of fragile X syndrome (FXS), the most common inherited cause of intellectual and learning disability.
This chapter provides an overview about the life course in carriers with full FXS mutation alleles and also for carriers of the premutation alleles, and non-medical interventions. However, only a small number of controlled intervention studies have been published in the field so far, and the description of the interventional approaches are derived from the general research in intellectual disability, the clinical experience of the authors, and the clinical reports of colleagues.
Presently, although the knowledge about the ...
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