Adolescents with traumatic brain injury: Assessing pragmatic language function

Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 237-248

  McDonald, Skye ^a   Turkstra, Lyn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Assessment; Pragmatics; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031944541     PISSN: 02699206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02699209808985224     Document Type: Article

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