Strategies for promoting generalization of social communication skills in preschoolers and school-aged children

Topics in Language Disorders

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 167-181

  Timler, Geralyn R ^a   Vogler Elias, Dawn ^a   McGill, K Fay ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b Multidisciplinary Team   (Canada)

Author keywords

Generalization; Language impairment; Peer interactions; Preschoolers; School aged children; Social communication skills

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248330943     PISSN: 02718294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TLD.0000269931.18881.90     Document Type: Article

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