Spoken language processing model: Bridging auditory and language processing to guide assessment and intervention

Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 286-296

  Medwetsky, Larry ^a  

^a International Center for Hearing and Speech Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory processing; Cognition; Intervention; Spoken language processing

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; CHILD; COOPERATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LEARNING DISORDER; LONG TERM MEMORY; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PHONETICS; REVIEW; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH DISORDER;

ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; CHILD; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; LEARNING DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PHONETICS; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICES; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY;

EID: 79960537790     PISSN: 01611461     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/0161-1461(2011/10-0036)     Document Type: Review

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