The ability of children with language impairment to manipulate topic in a structured task

Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 3-11

  Brinton, Bonnie ^a   Fujiki, Martin ^a   Powell, Jann M ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Conversation; Language impairment; Pragmatics; SLI; Topic manipulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031542476     PISSN: 01611461     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/0161-1461.2801.03     Document Type: Article

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