Psycholinguistic abilities of children with Williams syndrome

Research in Developmental Disabilities

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 819-824

  Rossi, Natalia F ^a   Garayzábal Heinze, Elena ^b   Giacheti, Célia M ^a   Gonçalves, Óscar F ^c   Sampaio, Adriana ^c  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Psycholinguistic abilities; Visual and auditory processing; Williams syndrome

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EDUCATION PROGRAM; HEARING; HUMAN; ILLINOIS TEST OF PSYCHOLINGUISTIC ABILITIES; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; VISION; WILLIAMS BEUREN SYNDROME;

APTITUDE; AUDITORY PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WECHSLER SCALES; WILLIAMS SYNDROME;

EID: 84855431695     PISSN: 08914222     EISSN: 18733379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ridd.2011.12.013     Document Type: Article

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