Rate, accuracy and consistency: Diadochokinetic performance of young, normally developing children

Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 267-293

  Williams, Pam ^a   Stackhouse, Joy ^b,c  

^a Nuffield Hearing and Speech Centre   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Chandler House ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Consistency; Diadochokinetic (DDK) tasks; Normally developing children; Psycholinguistic; Rate

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; SPEECH DISORDER; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0034084364     PISSN: 02699206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699200050023985     Document Type: Article

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