Parental scaffolding of the discourse of children and adolescents with intellectual disability: The case of, referential expressions

Journal of Intellectual Disability Research

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 540-557

  Abbeduto, Leonard ^a   Weissman, M D ^a   Short Meyerson, K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discourse; Parental scaffolding; Pragmatics

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MENTAL RETARDATION; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTING; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0033428461     PISSN: 09642633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2788.1999.00249.x     Document Type: Article

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