Predicting expressive vocabulary acquisition in children with intellectual disabilities: A 2-year longitudinal study

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1673-1686

  Vandereet, Joke ^a   Maes, Bea ^b   Lembrechts, Dirk ^c   Zink, Inge ^a  

^a KU LEUVEN UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c MODEM   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Children; Longitudinal study; Mental retardation; Prelinguistic communication; Vocabulary

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE TEST; LINGUISTICS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MENTAL RETARDATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 78650498093     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2010/09-0187)     Document Type: Article

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