Longitudinal Analyses of Expressive Language Development Reveal Two Distinct Language Profiles Among Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Defining spoken language benchmarks and selecting measures of expressive language development for young children with autism spectrum disorders.
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0162-3257,1573-3432
DOI: 10.1007/s10803-013-1853-4