Toddling into language: Precocious language development in motor-impaired children with spinal muscular atrophy

Lingua

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 423-433

  Sieratzki, Jechil S ^a,c   Woll, Bencie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Language acquisition; Language evolution; MacArthur CDI; Motor impairment; Over regularisations; Procedural learning; Spinal muscular atrophy

Indexed keywords

EID: 10644265368     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0024-3841(01)00054-7     Document Type: Article

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