Self-ordered pointing in children with autism: failure to use verbal mediation in the service of working memory?

@article{Joseph2005SelforderedPI,
  title={Self-ordered pointing in children with autism: failure to use verbal mediation in the service of working memory?},
  author={Robert M. Joseph and Shelley Steele and Echo Meyer and Helen Tager-Flusberg},
  journal={Neuropsychologia},
  year={2005},
  volume={43},
  pages={1400-1411}
}
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