Elicited and spontaneous communicative functions and stability of conversational measures with children who have pragmatic language impairments

International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 333-347

  Adams, Catherine ^a   Lloyd, Julian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assessment conversation; Child language; Intervention; Pragmatics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSERTIVENESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERSATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ASSERTIVENESS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD LANGUAGE; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SPEECH; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 21244479660     PISSN: 13682822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13682820400027768     Document Type: Article

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