Prematurity and Language Developmental Risk: Too Young or Too Small?

Topics in Language Disorders

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 15-25

  Gallagher, Tanya M ^a   Watkin, Kenneth L ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Language development; Perinatal risk; Prematurity; Small for gestational age

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032385229     PISSN: 02718294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00011363-199805000-00005     Document Type: Article

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