Syndrome of nonverbal learning disabilities: Psycholinguistic assets and deficits

Topics in Language Disorders

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 30-44

  Rourke, Byron P ^a,b   Tsatsanis, Katherine D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Nonverbal learning disabilities; Qualitative language differences

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030534925     PISSN: 02718294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00011363-199602000-00005     Document Type: Article

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