The SLP's role in collaborative assessment and intervention for children with ASD

Topics in Language Disorders

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 95-115

  Diehl, Sylvia Farnsworth ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b PCD 1017 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Autism; Language assessment; Language intervention; Pervasive developmental disorders; Speech language pathologist

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038171315     PISSN: 02718294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00011363-200304000-00004     Document Type: Review

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