Lessons from children with specific language impairment

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 283-285

  Bruce Tomblin, J ^a   Pandich, Jennifer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; NOTE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SPEECH;

EID: 0032783602     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1364-6613(99)01353-4     Document Type: Short Survey

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