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Tutorial and Synthesis

Incorporating discriminative stimuli into functional communication training with augmentative and alternative communication devices: a tutorial

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Pages 63-70 | Received 07 May 2019, Accepted 03 Jan 2020, Published online: 02 Apr 2020

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