Typical and atypical language development in infants and toddlers adopted from Eastern Europe

American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 417-433

  Glennen, Sharon ^a   Masters, M Gay ^b  

^a TOWSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adoption (child); Bilingualism; International adoption; Language development; Orphanage

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION; AGE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; EASTERN EUROPE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR; SPEECH DISORDER;

EID: 0036864691     PISSN: 10580360     EISSN: 15589110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1058-0360(2002/045)     Document Type: Article

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