Children with word finding difficulties: Continuities and profiles of abilities

First Language

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 433-448

  Messer, David ^a   Dockrell, Julie E ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Institute of Education   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Continuity; Language impairment; Word finding

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885594487     PISSN: 01427237     EISSN: 17402344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0142723713493345     Document Type: Article

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