Multilingual children with hearing loss: Factors contributing to language use at home and in early education

Child Language Teaching and Therapy

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 111-129

  Crowe, Kathryn ^a,b,c   McKinnon, David H ^b   McLeod, Sharynne ^b   Ching, Teresa Y C ^a,c  

^a HEARing CRC ^*  (Australia)

^b CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL ACOUSTIC LABORATORIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

communication; early education; hearing; multilingualism; sign language

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873946675     PISSN: 02656590     EISSN: 14770865     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0265659012467640     Document Type: Article

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