Mother-child synchrony and communicative reciprocity in late-talking toddlers

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 200-208

  Rescorla, Leslie ^a   Fechnay, Terri ^a  

^a BRYN MAWR COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Communicativeness in toddlers; Dyadic synchrony; Late talkers; Mother child interaction; Specific expressive language impairment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPEECH;

CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0029941175     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/jshr.3901.200     Document Type: Article

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