Shared attention and grammatical development in typical children and children with autism

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 653-673

  Rollins, Pamela Rosenthal ^a   Snow, Catherine E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UTD/Callier Center ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUTISM; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ATTENTION; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS;

EID: 0032175805     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0305000998003596     Document Type: Article

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