Effects of a computer-assisted language intervention in a rural nevada center

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 679-689

  Krumpe, Jo Anne ^a,b   Harlow, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE TEST; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; METHODOLOGY; RURAL POPULATION; SPEECH DISORDER; SPEECH THERAPY; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; LANGUAGE THERAPY; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; NEVADA; RURAL POPULATION; SOFTWARE; SPEECH DISORDERS; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 49149123263     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/PMS.106.3.679-689     Document Type: Article

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