Mean length utterance in Brazilian children: a comparative study between Down syndrome, specific language impairment, and typical language development
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Mean length utterance in Brazilian children: a comparative study between Down syndrome, specific language impairment, and typical language development.
PURPOSE To describe the linguistic performance of Brazilian Portuguese-speaking children with Down syndrome by analyzing their Mean Length Utterance; to compare their performance to that of children with Specific Language Impairment and Typical Development; and to verify whether children with Down syndrome present developmental language delay or disorder. METHOD Participants were 25 children ...
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عنوان ژورنال: CoDAS
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2317-1782
DOI: 10.1590/2317-1782/201420140516