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• Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination: adults • Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT): for all ages . For the child with a speech delay, the speech/language evaluation may demonstrate that the potential exists that, through speech therapy, the child will reach an age-appropriate level of speech. Some situations for which
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