Technology applications in the assessment of children's language

Seminars in Speech and Language

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 117-132

  Long, Steven H ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer assisted; Language assessment; Language sampling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INSTRUMENTATION; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH;

CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; PHONETICS; SOFTWARE; SPEECH; TECHNOLOGY, MEDICAL; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0032605937     PISSN: 07340478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1064013     Document Type: Article

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