Functional communication training: A review of the literature related to children with autism

Education and Training in Developmental Disabilities

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 213-224

  Richmond Mancil, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

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