Use of auditory learning to manage listening problems in children

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 364, Issue 1515, 2009, Pages 409-420

  Moore, David R ^a   Halliday, Lorna F ^a,b   Amitay, Sygal ^a  

^a MRC INSTITUTE OF HEARING RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Cognitive skills; Communication problems; Individual differences; Language problems; Perceptual learning

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY CUE; CHILD HEALTH; COGNITION; HEARING; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; PERCEPTION; SENSORY SYSTEM DISORDER; TRAINING;

EID: 58149250407     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2008.0187     Document Type: Review

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