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Brief Report: Autistic Children's Attentiveness and Responsivity Improve After Touch Therapy

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  1. Touch Research Institute, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, 33101

    Tiffany Field

  2. University of Miami School of Medicine, USA

    David Lasko, Peter Mundy & Tanja Henteleff

  3. Nova University, USA

    Susan Kabat, Susan Talpins & Monica Dowling

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Field, T., Lasko, D., Mundy, P. et al. Brief Report: Autistic Children's Attentiveness and Responsivity Improve After Touch Therapy. J Autism Dev Disord 27, 333–338 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1025858600220

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