The Sexual Knowledge, Experience, Feelings and Needs of People with Mild Intellectual Disability

Education and Training in Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 13-21

  McCabe, Marita P ^a   Cummins, Robert A ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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