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Original Articles

Ungrammatical utterances and disfluent speech as causes of comprehension problems in interactions of preadolescents with high functioning autism

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Pages 654-676 | Received 27 Aug 2018, Accepted 31 Jan 2019, Published online: 08 Mar 2019

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