A Preliminary study of speech discrimination in youth with Down syndrome

Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 305-317

  Keller Bell, Yolanda D ^a   Fox, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Down syndrome; Phonological memory; Speech discrimination; Speech language development

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; PHONETICS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH DISORDER; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY;

ADULT; CUES; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHONETICS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH DISORDERS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 34147121581     PISSN: 02699206     EISSN: 14645076     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699200701256255     Document Type: Article

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