Differentiating speech sound disorders from phonological dialect differences

Topics in Language Disorders

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 176-188

  Velleman, Shelley L ^a   Pearson, Barbara Zurer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

AAE; Assessment; Dialect; Intervention; Phonology

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957987803     PISSN: 02718294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TLD.0b013e3181efc378     Document Type: Article

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