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Chapter 10 - Adult Life for People with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2019

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Iliana Magiati  and
Patricia Howlin
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Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders , pp. 220 - 248
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