Communication Styles of Persons with ALS as Recounted by Surviving Partners.
The purpose of this study was to describe the communication patterns of individuals with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) as reported from the surviving spouses' perspectives. Six surviving spouses of people with ALS participated in semi-structured interviews after the deaths of their partners. T...
| Publicado en: | AAC: Augmentative & Alternative Communication Vol. 28; no. 4; pp. 232 - 243 |
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| Formato: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Dec2012
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