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Acknowledgment

This chapter revised from original article. Prasher, V.P., Farooq, A, Holder, R (2004). The Adaptive Behavior Dementia Questionnaire (ABDQ): Screening Questionnaire for dementia of Alzheimer’s disease in adults with Down syndrome. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 25, 385–397. Printed with permission from Elsevier.

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    Prasher, V. (2009). The Adaptive Behavior Dementia Questionnaire (ABDQ). In: Prasher, V. (eds) Neuropsychological Assessments of Dementia in Down Syndrome and Intellectual Disabilities. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-249-4_10

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