Language, achievement, and cognitive processing in psychiatrically disturbed children with previously identified and unsuspected language impairments

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 865-877

  Cohen, Nancy J ^a,b,d   Barwick, Melanie A ^b   Horodezky, Naorni B ^c   Vallance, Denise D ^b   Im, Nancie ^a  

^a Hincks Ctr Children's Mental Hlth   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c George Hull Ctr Children Families   (Canada)

^d C M Hincks Institute   (Canada)

Author keywords

Educational attainment; Information processing; Language disorder; Psychiatric disorder; Reading disorder

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COGNITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SCHOOL CHILD; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; UNDERACHIEVEMENT;

EID: 0031719570     PISSN: 00219630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021963098002790     Document Type: Article

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