The prevalence of learning disability in a health and social services board in Northern Ireland

Journal of Intellectual Disability Research

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 550-556

  McDonald, G ^a   MacKay, D N ^b  

^a Drumalane House   (United Kingdom)

^b Muckamore Abbey Hospital   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FAMILY; FATHER; HOME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LEARNING DISORDER; MOTHER; NEWBORN; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0030470101     PISSN: 09642633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2788.1996.tb00666.x     Document Type: Article

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