The Stability of Primary Language Disorder: Four Years after Kindergarten Diagnosis

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1283-1296

  Tomblin, J Bruce ^a   Zhang, Xuyang ^a   Buckwalter, Paula ^a   O'Brien, Marlea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Longitudinal; Outcome; Recovery; School age

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL CONDITION IMPROVEMENT; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; KINDERGARTEN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE TEST; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIMARY LANGUAGE DISORDER; PRIMARY SCHOOL; REFERENCE VALUE; REGRESSION TO THE MEAN; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0346955814     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2003/100)     Document Type: Article

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