Non-linguistic cognitive treatment for primary language impairment

Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 647-664

  Ebert, Kerry Danahy ^a   Kohnert, Kathryn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Non linguistic processing; Specific language impairment; Treatment

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349664068     PISSN: 02699206     EISSN: 14645076     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699200902998770     Document Type: Article

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