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Portable Intermodal Preferential Looking (IPL): Investigating Language Comprehension in Typically Developing Toddlers and Young Children with Autism

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The use of nonverbal pragmatic behaviors by language-impaired and normal-speaking children

A Rom, L S Bliss

    Journal of Communication Disorders
    |July 1, 1983
    PubMed

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