Signposts to development: Theory of mind in deaf children

Child Development

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 768-778

  Woolfe, Tyron ^a   Want, Stephen C ^a   Siegal, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; RANDOMIZATION; SIGN LANGUAGE;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; DEAFNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SIGN LANGUAGE;

EID: 0036579801     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8624.00437     Document Type: Review

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