Short-term memory and vocabulary development in children with Down syndrome and children with specific language impairment

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 532-538

  Hick, Rachel F ^a   Botting, Nicola ^a   Conti Ramsden, Gina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LINGUISTICS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL MEMORY;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 23644433532     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0012162205001040     Document Type: Article

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