Wayward words and watchful waiting: Should clinicians be more proactive for the preschooler with uncomplicated expressive language delay?

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 80-82

  O'Hare, Anne E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SOCIAL STATUS; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; WATCHFUL WAITING; AGE; EARLY CHILDHOOD INTERVENTION; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PROGNOSIS;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EARLY INTERVENTION (EDUCATION); HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; PARENTING; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 59649126321     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2008.148528     Document Type: Short Survey

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