How cognitive factors affect language development in children with intellectual disabilities

Research in Developmental Disabilities

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1884-1894

  Van der Schuit, Margje ^a   Segers, Eliane ^a   van Balkom, Hans ^a,b   Verhoeven, Ludo ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL DUTCH KENTALIS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Intellectual disability; Intelligence; Language development; Phonological working memory; Preschool children

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY MEMORY; BOOTSTRAPPING; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; INTELLIGENCE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PARAMETER; PHONOLOGICAL WORKING MEMORY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SKILL; SYNTAX; WORKING MEMORY;

CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RETARDATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHONETICS; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 79958293233     PISSN: 08914222     EISSN: 18733379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ridd.2011.03.015     Document Type: Article

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