Language profiles of monolingual and bilingual Finnish preschool children at risk for language impairment

International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 699-711

  Westman, Martin ^a   Korkman, Marit ^b   Mickos, Annika ^c   Byring, Roger ^a  

^a FOLKHÄLSAN RESEARCH CENTER   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c Kårkulla Samkommun ^*

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Experience based language; Language impairment; Language profile

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINORITY GROUP; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCREENING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; RISK; SWEDEN;

EID: 57349179051     PISSN: 13682822     EISSN: 14606984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13682820701839200     Document Type: Article

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