The co-development of speech and gesture in children with autism

Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics

Volumn 22, Issue 10-11, 2008, Pages 804-813

  Sowden, Hannah ^a   Perkins, Mick ^a   Clegg, Judy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ASD; Gesture development; Language development

Indexed keywords

AUTISM; CASE REPORT; CHECKLIST; CHILD; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; GESTURE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PLAY THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VIDEORECORDING;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICATION; GESTURES; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH;

EID: 56349166627     PISSN: 02699206     EISSN: 14645076     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699200801919745     Document Type: Conference Paper

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