Assessing children referred to speech and language therapy: Static and dynamic assessment of receptive vocabulary

Advances in Speech Language Pathology

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 312-322

  Camilleri, Bernard ^a   Law, James ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARGARET UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dynamic; Language impairment; Referred; Static; Vocabulary

Indexed keywords

EID: 35148894089     PISSN: 14417049     EISSN: 17429528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14417040701624474     Document Type: Article

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