Using the Language Characteristics of Clinical Populations to Understand Normal Language Development

Pediatric Clinics of North America

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 585-607

  Feldman, Heidi M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN INJURY; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; REVIEW; SECRETORY OTITIS MEDIA; SOCIAL STATUS; SPEECH;

BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; CHILD; COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; COMORBIDITY; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; LANDAU-KLEFFNER SYNDROME; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OTITIS MEDIA WITH EFFUSION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 34249287651     PISSN: 00313955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pcl.2007.02.006     Document Type: Review

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