Bilingual children: Cross-sectional relations of psychiatric syndrome severity and dual language proficiency

Harvard Review of Psychiatry

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 15-29

  Toppelberg, Claudio ^a,b,c   Nieto Castañon, Alfonso ^b,d,e   Hauser, Stuart ^a,b,c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b JUDGE BAKER CHILDREN S CENTER   (United States)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Child; Language development disorders; Mental health; Minorities; Psychopathology

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGGRESSION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHECKLIST; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPETENCE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HOME; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL; SCORING SYSTEM; SPAIN; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MULTILINGUALISM; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33644765759     PISSN: 10673229     EISSN: 14657309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10673220500519698     Document Type: Article

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