A story description task in children with Down's syndrome: Lexical and morphosyntactic abilities

Journal of Intellectual Disability Research

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 165-179

  Fabbretti, D ^a   Pizzuto, E ^b   Vicari, S ^c   Volterra, V ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c BAMBINO GESÙ CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Down's syndrome; Language; Mental retardation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ITALY; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MALE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MENTAL RETARDATION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0030801893     PISSN: 09642633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2788.1997.tb00693.x     Document Type: Article

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