Black and White adults' expressive language performance on three tests of aphasia

American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 139-150

  Molrine, Charlotte J ^a   Pierce, Robert S ^a  

^a EDINBORO UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

African American; Aphasia; Assessment; Expressive language; Normative data

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APHASIA; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ERROR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; PHONETICS; RACE DIFFERENCE; RATING SCALE; READING; RECALL; SPEECH ARTICULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0036014630     PISSN: 10580360     EISSN: 15589110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1058-0360(2002/014)     Document Type: Article

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