Translation challenges and strategies: The ASL translation of a computer-based, psychiatric diagnostic interview

Sign Language Studies

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2004, Pages

  Montoya, Louise A ^a   Egnatovitch, Reginald ^a   Eckhardt, Elizabeth ^b   Goldstein, Marjorie ^b   Goldstein, Richard A ^a,b   Steinberg, Annie G ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b Social Sciences Innovations Corporation

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EID: 34547496264     PISSN: 03021475     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/sls.2004.0019     Document Type: Article

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