Language and communicative development in Williams syndrome

Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 3-15

  Mervis, Carolyn B ^a   Becerra, Angela M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism spectrum disorder; Intellectual disability; Language acquisition; Modularity; Williams syndrome

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHROMOSOME 7Q; COGNITION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENE DELETION; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING DISORDER; LINGUISTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VERBAL MEMORY; WILLIAMS BEUREN SYNDROME;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING; WILLIAMS SYNDROME;

EID: 33947108959     PISSN: 10804013     EISSN: 10982779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrdd.20140     Document Type: Review

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