Why do children with specific language impairment name pictures more slowly than their peers?

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1081-1098

  Lahey, Margaret ^a   Edwards, Jan ^b  

^a EMERSON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Lexical processing; Picture naming speed; Specific language impairment; Subgroups of SLI

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROUP PSYCHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE TEST; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERSONALITY TEST; PHONEME; PHONETICS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESPONSE TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TIME FACTORS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0029800917     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/jshr.3905.1081     Document Type: Article

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