Cross-Language Nonword Repetition by Bilingual and Monolingual Children.
Purpose: Identifying children with primary or specific language impairment (LI) in languages other than English continues to present a diagnostic challenge. This study examined the utility of English and Spanish nonword repetition (NWR) to identify children known to have LI. Method: Participants wer...
| Publicado en: | American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology Vol. 19; no. 4; pp. 298 - 311 |
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Nov2010
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