The role of color cues in facilitating accurate and rapid location of aided symbols by children with and without down syndrome

American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 179-193

  Wilkinson, Krista ^a,b   Carlin, Michael ^b   Thistle, Jennifer ^a  

^a EMERSON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Aided symbols; Symbol identification; Visual processing; Visual search

Indexed keywords

EID: 44449136007     PISSN: 10580360     EISSN: 15589110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1058-0360(2008/018)     Document Type: Article

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