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Original Articles

Clinicians’ perspectives of therapeutic alliance in face-to-face and telepractice speech–language pathology sessions

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Pages 287-296 | Received 13 Jul 2016, Accepted 04 Feb 2017, Published online: 07 Mar 2017

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