Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Volume 88, Issue 12 , Pages 1561-1573 , December 2007

Treatment Efficacy of Social Communication Skills Training After Traumatic Brain Injury: A Randomized Treatment and Deferred Treatment Controlled Trial

Preliminary results presented as a poster to the TBI Interagency Conference, March 10, 2006, Bethesda, MD. Published as the abstract: Social communication skills training after traumatic brain injury. J Head Trauma Rehabil 2006;21:425.

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 Supported by the Rocky Mountain Regional Brain Injury System through the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (grant no. H133A020510-03).

 No commercial party having a direct financial interest in the results of the research supporting this article has or will confer a benefit upon the author(s) or upon any organization with which the author(s) is/are associated.

PII: S0003-9993(07)01487-6

doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2007.07.033

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