Narrative skill and syntactic complexity in school-age children with and without late language emergence

International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 197-207

  Domsch, Celeste ^a   Richels, Corrin ^b   Saldana, Michelle ^c   Coleman, Cardin ^d   Wimberly, Clayton ^e   Maxwell, Lauren ^f  

^a TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Trinity Mission Nursing and Rehabilitation   (United States)

^d Himmel Home Health   (United States)

^e Windsor Rehab Ltd   (United States)

^f PeopleFirst Rehabilitation   (United States)

Author keywords

narrative; outcomes of late language emergence; school age syntax

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE TEST; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NARRATION; TEXAS;

EID: 84857714778     PISSN: 13682822     EISSN: 14606984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-6984.2011.00095.x     Document Type: Article

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