What pediatricians should know about normal language development: Ensuring cultural differences are not diagnosed as disorders

Pediatric Annals

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 446-452

  Weiss, Amy L ^a   Van Haren, Melissa S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CHILD CARE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNOLOGY; HEARING DISORDER; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; PEDIATRICIAN; REVIEW; SPEECH; SPEECH DISORDER; SPEECH THERAPY;

EID: 0038353302     PISSN: 00904481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/0090-4481-20030701-06     Document Type: Review

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