Sit to talk: Relation between motor skills and language development in infancy

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 7, Issue MAR, 2016, Pages

  Libertus, Klaus ^a   Violi, Dominic A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Developmental cascades; Infancy; Language development; Motor development; Videoconference

Indexed keywords

EID: 84963700644     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00475     Document Type: Article

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