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Acknowledgment
The authors thank the participants who made this study
possible by completing the survey. This work has been
supported by the CNCSIS-Bucharest, Romania project
PN-II-IDPCE-2011-3-0484-Exploring Robot-Assisted Therapy for children with ASD and the European FP7 project
DREAM (grant no. 611391).

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