Review: The impact of motor development on typical and atypical social cognition and language: A systematic review

Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 163-170

  Leonard, Hayley C ^a   Hill, Elisabeth L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autism spectrum disorders; Developmental coordination disorder; Motor development; Social cognition; Specific language impairment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTISM; DEVELOPMENTAL COORDINATION DISORDER; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MOTOR DEVELOPMENT; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL COGNITION; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

EID: 84905726713     PISSN: 1475357X     EISSN: 14753588     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/camh.12055     Document Type: Article

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