Clinical assessment of pragmatic language impairment: A generalisability study of older people with Alzheimer's disease

Aphasiology

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 693-714

  Hays, Sarah Jane ^a   Niven, Brian E ^a   Godfrey, Hamish P D ^a   Linscott, Richard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APHASIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; NEUROPSYCHIATRY; PREDICTION; PSYCHOMETRY; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SPEECH ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 4344665578     PISSN: 02687038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02687030444000183     Document Type: Article

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