Home⇛The PCMC Journal⇛vol. 22 no. 2 (2026)

Validity and reliability of the Filipino version of the Autism Treatment Evaluation Checklist (ATEC)

Katherine Grace R. Tan | Patrisha Ivana E. Cordova | Angela Lauren F. Villaseñor | Annelyn Fatima M Lopez

Discipline: medicine by specialism

 



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