Effects of lengthening the speech signal on auditory word discrimination in kindergartners with SLI

Journal of Communication Disorders

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 499-514

  Segers, Eliane ^a   Verhoeven, Ludo ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINDERGARTEN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

CHILD; CHILD DAY CARE CENTERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH DISORDERS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 25844488715     PISSN: 00219924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcomdis.2005.04.003     Document Type: Article

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