Relationships between symbolic play, functional play, verbal and non-verbal ability in young children

International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 117-127

  Lewis, Vicky ^a   Boucher, Jill ^b,c   Lupron, Laura ^c   Watson, Samantha ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; INTELLIGENCE; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PLAY; SYMBOLISM;

EID: 0034085375     PISSN: 13682822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/136828200247287     Document Type: Article

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