Characteristics and Management of Primary Progressive Aphasia (1999)

No AccessPerspectives on Neurophysiology and Neurogenic Speech and Language DisordersArticle1 Oct 1999Characteristics and Management of Primary Progressive Aphasia Margaret A. Rogers and Nancy B. Alarcon Margaret A. Rogers Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of WashingtonSeattle, WA Google Scholar and Nancy B. Alarcon Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of WashingtonSeattle, WA Google Scholar https://doi.org/10.1044/nnsld9.4.12 SectionsAboutFull TextPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In References Ackermann, H., Scharf, G., Hertrich, I., & Dawn, I. (1997). Articulatory disorders in primary progressive aphasia: an acoustic and kinematic analysis.Aphasiology, 11, 1017–1030. CrossrefGoogle Scholar Arima, K., Uesugi, H., Fujita, I., Sakurai, U., Oyanagi, S., Andoh, S., Izumiyama, Y., & Inose, T. (1994). 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