Targeting temporal processing deficits through Fast ForWord®: Language therapy with a new twist

Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 353-362

  Veale, Tina K ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory processing; Language intervention; Specific language impairment; Temporal processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033244517     PISSN: 01611461     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/0161-1461.3004.353     Document Type: Article

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