Comorbidity of motor and language impairments in preschool children of Taiwan

Research in Developmental Disabilities

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1054-1061

  Cheng, Hsiang Chun ^a,b   Chen, Hung Yi ^a   Tsai, Chia Liang ^a   Chen, Yung Jung ^c   Cherng, Rong Ju ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b HUNGKUANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Co occurrence; Developmental Coordination Disorder; Developmental Speech and Language Disorder; Motor skill; Speech language

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH AND LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT; SPEECH DISORDER; TAIWAN;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMORBIDITY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; MOTOR SKILLS DISORDERS; TAIWAN;

EID: 64649094811     PISSN: 08914222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ridd.2009.02.008     Document Type: Article

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