Clinical abnormalities, intervention program, and school attendance of Down syndrome children in southern Thailand

Journal of the Medical Association of Thailand

Volumn 87, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1199-1204

  Jaruratanasirikul, Somchit ^a,b   Soponthammarak, Somkiat ^a   Chanvitan, Prasin ^a   Limprasert, Pornprot ^a   Sriplung, Hutcha ^a   Leelasamran, Wipawan ^a   Winothai, Seesuda ^a  

^a PRINCE OF SONGKLA UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b PRINCE OF SONGKLA UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Down syndrome

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM MALFORMATION; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; INCOME; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SELF HELP; SPEECH THERAPY; STIMULATION; THAILAND; THYROID DISEASE;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOWN SYNDROME; EARLY INTERVENTION (EDUCATION); EDUCATION, SPECIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPEECH THERAPY; THAILAND;

EID: 8444239360     PISSN: 01252208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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