Novel word acquisition in children with down syndrome: Does modality make a difference?

Journal of Communication Disorders

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 241-266

  Bird, Elizabeth Kay Raining ^a   Gaskell, Annette ^b   Babineau, Michelle Dallaire ^c   MacDonald, Susan ^c  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b E Assoc Speech Lang Serv Inc   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Down syndrome; Manual communication; Mental retardation; Vocabulary acquisition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN SYNDROME; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION DISORDERS; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0034611992     PISSN: 00219924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9924(00)00022-8     Document Type: Article

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