Performance on phonological and grammatical awareness metalinguistic tasks by children who stutter and their fluent peers

Journal of Fluency Disorders

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 63-77

  Bajaj, Amit ^a   Hodson, Barbara ^b   Schommer Aikins, Marlene ^b  

^a EMERSON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Grammatical awareness; Metalinguistic tasks; Phonological awareness; Stuttering

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PHONETICS; SEMANTICS; STUTTERING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 1542722309     PISSN: 0094730X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfludis.2004.01.001     Document Type: Article

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