Progression of language complexity during treatment with the Lidcombe Program for early stuttering intervention

American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 242-253

  Lattermann, Christina ^a,b   Shenker, Rosalee C ^a   Thordardottir, Elin ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Montreal Fluency Centre ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Fluency development; Lexical diversity; Lidcombe program; Linguistic complexity; Utterance length

Indexed keywords

EID: 27744600136     PISSN: 10580360     EISSN: 15589110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1058-0360(2005/024)     Document Type: Article

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