Case Studies of Children Using Fast ForWord

American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 203-215

  Friel Patti, Sandy ^a   Desbarres, Kim ^a   Thibodeau, Linda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Case study; Fast ForWord; Intervention; Language impairment; School age

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035636655     PISSN: 10580360     EISSN: 15589110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1058-0360(2001/019)     Document Type: Article

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