Intervention for mixed receptive-expressive language impairment: A review

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 994-999

  Boyle, James ^a   Mccartney, Elspeth ^a   O'hare, Anne ^b   Law, James ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; COGNITION; COMORBIDITY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PHENOTYPE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SPECIAL EDUCATION; SPEECH THERAPY;

CHILD; COGNITION DISORDERS; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LANGUAGE THERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 78649420802     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2010.03750.x     Document Type: Review

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