Relationship between discourse and Western Aphasia Battery performance in African Americans with aphasia

Aphasiology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 511-521

  Ulatowska, Hanna K ^a   Olness, Gloria Streit ^a   Wertz, Robert T ^b,c   Samson, Agnes M ^a,d   Keebler, Molly W ^a   Goins, Karen E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Integrated Health Services (IHS)   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APHASIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TEST; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEGRO; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0038246470     PISSN: 02687038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0268703034400102     Document Type: Conference Paper

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