The use of the Bilingual Aphasia Test for assessment and transcranial direct current stimulation to modulate language acquisition in minimally verbal children with autism.
Minimally verbal children with autism commonly demonstrate language dysfunction, including immature syntax acquisition. We hypothesised that transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) should facilitate language acquisition in a cohort ( n == 10) of children with immature syntax. We modified the...
| Publicado en: | Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics Vol. 25; no. 6/7; pp. 640 - 655 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jun/Jul2011
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