Maternal Sensitivity and the Visual Attentiveness of Children Who Are Deaf

Infant and Child Development

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 213-223

  Meadow Orlans, Kathryn P ^a   Spencer, Patricia E ^b  

^a GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Deafness; Hearing impairment; Sensitivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 2342618303     PISSN: 15227227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0917(199612)5:4<213::aid-edp134>3.0.co;2-p     Document Type: Article

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