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Review–Treatment

Collective findings neither support nor refute the use of oral motor exercises as a treatment for speech sound disorders

Dennis M. Ruscello (Commentary author) Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, USACorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 65-72 | Published online: 21 Jul 2010

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