Oral language competence, social skills and high-risk boys: What are juvenile offenders trying to tell us?

Children and Society

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 16-28

  Snow, Pamela C ^a   Powell, Martine B ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 36949038186     PISSN: 09510605     EISSN: 10990860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1099-0860.2006.00076.x     Document Type: Article

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