Asperger syndrome and clumsiness
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Asperger syndrome and clumsiness.
I read with interest the brief report by Ghaziuddin, Tsai, and Ghaziuddin (1992) in this journal referring to clumsiness in Asperger syndrome. The authors of that report cited a study from our center (Gillberg, 1989) and built some of their arguments around that citation. The authors cannot have read the paper they quote. They say that in the Gillberg (1989) study "a cutoff score of 15 and abov...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
سال: 1993
ISSN: 0162-3257,1573-3432
DOI: 10.1007/bf01046112