Assessment of attention following pre-school traumatic brain injury: A behavioural attention measure

Pediatric Rehabilitation

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 149-157

  Bakker, Kathleen ^a   Anderson, Vicki ^b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT WESTMEAD   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attention; Children; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; HYPERACTIVITY; IMPULSIVENESS; INTELLECT; MALE; MOTIVATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 80052351680     PISSN: 13638491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/136384999289414     Document Type: Article

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