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The early lexical development and its predictive value to language skills at 2 years in very-low-birth-weight children

Authors: Stolt S, Haataja L, Lapinleimu H, Lehtonen L

Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC

Publication year: 2009

Journal:: Journal of Communication Disorders

Journal name in source: JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION DISORDERS

Journal acronym: J COMMUN DISORD

Volume: 42

Issue: 2

First page : 107

Last page: 123

Number of pages: 17

ISSN: 0021-9924

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcomdis.2008.10.002

Abstract

Learning outcomes: The reader becomes aware of the receptive and expressive lexical development of the VLBW children, and learns about the predictive value of early vocabulary growth to the language skills at 2 years of corrected age in this group of children. (c) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.