Depression and nonacademic self-perceptions in children with and without learning disabilities

Learning Disability Quarterly

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 34-44

  Heath, Nancy Lee ^a   Wiener, Judith ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NONE

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EID: 0030306255     PISSN: 07319487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1511051     Document Type: Article

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