Young children's acquisition of the location aspect of American Sign Language signs: Parental report findings

Journal of Communication Disorders

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 13-35

  Bonvillian, John D ^a   Siedlecki Jr , Theodore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CODING; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; SIGN LANGUAGE; SPEECH; VIDEOTAPE; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

EID: 0029870371     PISSN: 00219924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0021-9924(94)00015-8     Document Type: Article

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