Early child language mediates the relation between home environment and school readiness

Child Development

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 736-749

  Forget Dubois, Nadine ^a   Dionne, Ginette ^a   Lemelin, Jean Pascal ^b   Pérusse, Daniel ^c   Tremblay, Richard E ^c   Boivin, Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; CHILD BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENETICS; HOUSING; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; READING; SCHOOL; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; TWINS;

CANADA; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOUSING; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; READING; SCHOOLS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TWIN STUDIES AS TOPIC; TWINS;

EID: 66149184646     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01294.x     Document Type: Article

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