Direct versus indirect and individual versus group modes of language therapy for children with primary language impairment principal outcomes from a randomized controlled trial and economic evaluation

International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 826-846

  Boyle, James M ^a   McCartney, Elspeth ^a   O'Hare, Anne ^b   Forbes, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Developmental language impairment; Expressive language; Randomized control trial RCT; Receptive language; Speech and language therapy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GROUP THERAPY; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SALARY; SCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH AND LANGUAGE; SPEECH THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; ECONOMICS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TEST; PROCEDURES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; LANGUAGE THERAPY; MALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 68749083880     PISSN: 13682822     EISSN: 14606984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/13682820802371848     Document Type: Article

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