Syntactic awareness: Probable correlations with central coherence and non-verbal intelligence in autism

Jornal da Sociedade Brasileira de Fonoaudiologia

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 142-151

  Varanda, Cristina de Andrade ^a   Fernandes, Fernanda Dreux Miranda ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Speech Language Pathology and Hearing Sciences   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Autistic disorder; Child; Cognition; Evaluation; Language development

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; AWARENESS; CHILD; COGNITION; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; AUTISTIC DISORDER; AWARENESS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; SEMANTICS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84856435470     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21796491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S2179-64912011000200011     Document Type: Article

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