The use of the bilingual aphasia test for assessment and transcranial direct current stimulation to modulate language acquisition in minimally verbal children with autism

Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics

Volumn 25, Issue 6-7, 2011, Pages 640-654

  Schneider, Harry D ^a,b   Hopp, Jenna P ^b  

^a New York Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital   (United States)

^b Center for Medical and Brain Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

bilingual children with autism; modified Bilingual Aphasia Test; multilingual; neuromodulation; syntax first language acquisition

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APHASIA; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE TEST; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; APHASIA; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VERBAL LEARNING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959207929     PISSN: 02699206     EISSN: 14645076     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02699206.2011.570852     Document Type: Article

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