Profiling oral narrative ability in young school-aged children

International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 178-189

  Westerveld, Marleen F ^a   Gillon, Gail T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Language sampling analysis; Oral narrative skills; School age children

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; COMPREHENSION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE TEST; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPEECH; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

AGING; CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPREHENSION; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NARRATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPEECH;

EID: 77951276408     PISSN: 17549515     EISSN: 17549507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/17549500903194125     Document Type: Article

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