Psychometric Evaluation of the Stuttering Anticipation Scale in Turkish

Halil Tayyip Uysal1, Nazmiye Atila-Caglar1, Ibrahim Erensoy2

  • 1Speech and Language Therapy, Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University, Ankara, Turkey.

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