Spanish-English bilingual children with psychopathology: Language deficits and academic language proficiency

Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 156-163

  Toppelberg, Claudio O ^a,b   Munir, Kerim ^b   Nieto Castañon, Alfonso ^c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Child; Cultural; Immigrant; Impairment; Language development disorders; Minority; Psychopathology

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PSYCHIATRY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE TEST; LINGUISTICS; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 33747607287     PISSN: 1475357X     EISSN: 14753588     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-3588.2006.00403.x     Document Type: Article

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