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Neuropsychological evaluation of the spanish-speaker: A reply to artiola I fortuny (1996)
The Clinical Neuropsychologist
|May 12, 2000
Abstract:
In 1996 Artiola I Fortuny published a review of our book, Neuropsychological Evaluation of the Spanish Speaker (Ardila, Rosselli, & Puente, 1994), in this journal. We appreciate the time and energy taken to produce such an exhaustive review of our little volume. However, considering the extremely negative and personal nature of the review, we felt obliged to the scientific and professional community to provide reasoned information, which should help clarify the numerous misunderstandings in the review.
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