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Research Article

Clinical measures of communication limitations in dysarthria assessed through crowdsourcing: specificity, sensitivity, and retest-reliability

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Pages 988-1009 | Received 08 Mar 2021, Accepted 05 Sep 2021, Published online: 12 Nov 2021

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