Gestures in prelinguistic Turkish children with autism, down syndrome, and typically developing children

Kuram ve Uygulamada Egitim Bilimleri

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1471-1478

  Töret, Gökhan ^a   Acarlar, Funda ^b  

^a Isparta Vocational School   (Turkey)

^b ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Autism; Down syndrome; Gesture development; Prelinguistic communication

Indexed keywords

EID: 83655211625     PISSN: 13030485     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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