Recommending Intervention for Toddlers with Specific Language Learning Difficulties: We May Not Have All the Answers, but We Know a Lot

American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 23-32

  Olswang, Lesley B ^a   Rodriguez, Barbara ^a   Timler, Geralyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Language intervention; Late talkers; Slow expressive language development; Specific language impairment; Toddler language delay

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032327135     PISSN: 10580360     EISSN: 15589110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1058-0360.0701.23     Document Type: Article

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