Commentary published in:
Epistemological issue: Bilingual Language Development in Autism
Edited by Cristina Flores and Neal Snape
[Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 12:1] 2022
► pp. 65–70
Commentary

Language competence and beyond

Understanding the lived experience of bilingualism for autistic people

| University of Cambridge
| University of Cambridge
Published online: 13 December 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.21070.kat
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