Use of gesture development in profiling children's prelinguistic communication skills

American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 95-108

  Crais, Elizabeth R ^a,b   Watson, Linda R ^a   Baranek, Grace T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Gesture assessment; Gesture development; Prelinguistic communication

Indexed keywords

EID: 59349106148     PISSN: 10580360     EISSN: 15589110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1058-0360(2008/07-0041)     Document Type: Review

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