Communicating with children and adolescents: 'Children are all foreigners,' Ralph Waldo Emerson said; but it need not always be the case. Here are some specific, age-appropriate tips for understanding the language of children.

American Journal of Nursing

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 34-41

  Deering, Catherine Gray ^a,b   Cody, Debra Jennings ^b  

^a Clayton Coll and State University   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1097/00000446-200203000-00017     Document Type: Article

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