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Perspectives on Rehabilitation

Intensive Comprehensive Aphasia Programmes: a systematic scoping review and analysis using the TIDieR checklist for reporting interventions

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Pages 6471-6496 | Received 24 Aug 2020, Accepted 09 Jul 2021, Published online: 26 Aug 2021

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