Dead Manual Walking? Why the 1992 AAMR Definition Needs Redoing

Education and Training in Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 179-190

  Greenspan, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

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