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Pariya Behnami is a senior clinician and speech and language
therapist at TalkLink in Christchurch, New Zealand. She wrote this
paper as part of her postgraduate studies at Massey University.
Sally Clendon is a senior lecturer in the Speech and Language
Therapy Programme at Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand.
Correspondence to:
Sally Clendon
Massey University
phone: +64 9 414 0800 Ext 43537
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