Differentiating SLI from ADHD using children's sentence recall and production of past tense morphology

Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 109-127

  Redmond, Sean M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

ADHD; Differential diagnosis; Morphology; Production; Sentence recall; SLI; Tense marking

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 12544252713     PISSN: 02699206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699200410001669870     Document Type: Article

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