Assessment of complex sentence production in a narrative context

Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 152-164

  Gummersall, Dawn M ^a   Strong, Carol J ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic assessment; Language disorder; Narrative; School age children; Syntax assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033243093     PISSN: 01611461     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/0161-1461.3002.152     Document Type: Article

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