Important issues in the care and evaluation of bilingual/multilingual children

International Pediatrics

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 8-13

  Chavda, Usha ^a   Kao, Rosanna ^b   Soldatou, Alexandra ^a   Gardner, Andrew ^c   Knudson, Pena ^c   Su, Hongjun ^d   Schoon Eberly, Susan ^c   Van Dyke, Don C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HEALTH CARE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilingual; Culture; Language development; Multilingual; Simultaneous language exposure; Successive language exposure

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CHILD CARE; EDUCATION; EMOTION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FAMILY; HUMAN; INFORMATION; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING DISORDER; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; NURSE; PEDIATRICIAN; PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT; REVIEW; SOCIAL WORKER; SPEECH; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037216077     PISSN: 08856265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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