The impact of developmental visuospatial learning difficulties on British Sign Language

Neurocase

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 424-441

  Atkinson, J R ^a   Woll, Bencie ^a   Gathercole, S ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

British Sign Language; Deafness; Visuospatial impairment; Williams syndrome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CASE REPORT; COGNITION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DISSOCIATION; FACE; FEMALE; FRACTIONATION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING DISORDER; LINGUISTICS; PHENOTYPE; SIGN LANGUAGE; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; THEORY; UNITED KINGDOM; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; WILLIAMS BEUREN SYNDROME;

ADULT; COGNITION; DEAFNESS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; SIGN LANGUAGE; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY; WILLIAMS SYNDROME;

EID: 0036987491     PISSN: 13554794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/neucas/8.6.424     Document Type: Article

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