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Fernanda Dreux Miranda Fernandes\* , Milene Rossi Pereira Barbosa, Thaís Helena Ferreira Santos and Cibelle Albuquerque de La Higuera Amato

\*Address all correspondence to: fernandadreux@usp.br

Department of Phisical Therapy, Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology and Ocupational Therapy, School of Medicine, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

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