Assessment of linguistic abilities in Italian children with Specific Language Impairment

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2816-2823

  Marini, Andrea ^a,b   Tavano, Alessandro ^b   Fabbro, Franco ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Language; Narratives; Neurolinguistics; SLI

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; ITALY; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; SPEECH;

EID: 47549117886     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.05.013     Document Type: Article

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