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Poor facial affect recognition among boys with duchenne muscular dystrophy.
Journal of autism and developmental disorders - 1 Nov 2007
Hinton V J, Fee R J, De Vivo D C, Goldstein E
Abstract excerpt
Children with Duchenne or Becker muscular dystrophy (MD) have delayed language and poor social skills and some meet criteria for Pervasive Developmental Disorder, yet they are identified by molecular, rather than behavioral, characteristics. To determine whether comprehension of facial affect is compromised in boys with MD, children were given a matching-to-sample test with four types of visual recognition...
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