Language development and fragile X syndrome: Profiles, syndrome- specificity, and within-syndrome differences

Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 36-46

  Abbeduto, Leonard ^a   Brady, Nancy ^b   Kover, Sara T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism; Communication; Fragile X syndrome; Language; Mental retardation

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; COMORBIDITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION PROTEIN; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; MENTAL RETARDATION; POINT MUTATION; PREVALENCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 33947115381     PISSN: 10804013     EISSN: 10982779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrdd.20142     Document Type: Review

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