A Comparison of Intentional Communication in Children Who Have Down Syndrome with Typical Children Matched for Developmental and Chronological Age

Infant-Toddler Intervention

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 123-132

  Weitzner Lin, Barbara ^a  

^a BUFFALO STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

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