The impact of child maltreatment on expressive syntax at 60 months

Developmental Science

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 88-102

  Eigsti, Inge Marie ^a,b   Cicchetti, Dante ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b New York Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD ABUSE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE TEST; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

CHILD ABUSE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 1142266477     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2004.00325.x     Document Type: Article

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