Early gesture predicts language delay in children with pre- or perinatal brain lesions

Child Development

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 528-539

  Sauer, Eve ^a   Levine, Susan C ^a   Goldin Meadow, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CHRONIC BRAIN DISEASE; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; GESTURE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE TEST; LINGUISTICS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REFERENCE VALUE; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

AGE FACTORS; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICATION; COMPREHENSION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; GESTURES; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 77954294503     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01413.x     Document Type: Article

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