A preliminary comparison of successful and nonsuccessful closure types among adults with specific learning disabilities in the vocational rehabilitation system

Journal of Rehabilitation

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 42-47

  Dunham, Mardis D ^a   Koller, James R ^a   McIntosh, David E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

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