Positive adjustment in parents rearing children with down syndrome

Early Education and Development

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 407-422

  Flaherty, Evelyn M ^a   Glidden, Laraine Masters ^a  

^a ST MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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EID: 0000349848     PISSN: 10409289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15566935eed1104_3     Document Type: Article

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