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Brief Report: Motor Incoordination in Children with Asperger Syndrome and Learning Disabilities

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  1. Movement Development Clinic, School of Physical Education, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

    Motohide Miyahara

  2. Gifu University of Education, New Zealand

    Masatsugu Tsujii

  3. Nagoya University, Japan

    Miwako Hori

  4. Nagoya University, Japan

    Kazunori Nakanishi & Hidenori Kageyama

  5. Shizuoka University, Japan

    Toshiro Sugiyama

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Miyahara, M., Tsujii, M., Hori, M. et al. Brief Report: Motor Incoordination in Children with Asperger Syndrome and Learning Disabilities. J Autism Dev Disord 27, 595–603 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1025834211548

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