A diagnostic challenge: Language difficulties and hearing impairment in a secondary-school student from a non-English-speaking background

Child Language Teaching and Therapy

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 207-220

  Murphy, Judith ^a   Dodd, Barbara ^b  

^a Department of Education and Training ^*  (Australia)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

diagnosis; hearing impairment; non English speaking background; SLI

Indexed keywords

EID: 78751546665     PISSN: 02656590     EISSN: 14770865     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0265659009349977     Document Type: Article

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