Brief report: An exploratory study of lexical skills in bilingual children with autism spectrum disorder

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1499-1503

  Petersen, Jill M ^a   Marinova Todd, Stefka H ^a   Mirenda, Pat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

ASD; Bilingual; CDI; Chinese; Vocabulary

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; COMORBIDITY; COMPREHENSION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84863860307     PISSN: 01623257     EISSN: 15733432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10803-011-1366-y     Document Type: Article

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