Impairment in non-word repetition: A marker for language impairment or reading impairment?

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 711-716

  Baird, Gillian ^a   Slonims, Vicky ^a   Simonoff, Emily ^b   Dworzynski, Katharina ^c  

^a GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDRENS TEST OF NON WORD REPETITION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL EVALUATION OF LANGUAGE FUNDAMENTALS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LEARNING DISORDER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SCHOOL CHILD; SPELLING; VERBAL MEMORY; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE FOR CHILDREN III; WECHSLER OBJECTIVE READING DIMENSIONS; WIDE RANGE ASSESSMENT OF MEMORY AND LEARNING; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; DYSLEXIA; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHONETICS;

EID: 79960105785     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2011.03936.x     Document Type: Article

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