The role of a language scale for infant and preschool assessment

Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 238-246

  Zimmerman, Irla Lee ^a   Castilleja, Nancy Flores ^b  

^a American Board of Professional Psychology   (United States)

^b Harcourt Assessment Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Child language; Early language; Infant language; Preschool; Preschool language assessment

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENT; HOME; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRESCHOOL LANGUAGE SCALE 3; PRESCHOOL LANGUAGE SCALE 4; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE TESTS; MOTOR SKILLS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 26444578237     PISSN: 10804013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrdd.20078     Document Type: Review

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