Learning difficulties in adolescent clients of a shelter for runaway and homeless street youths

Journal of Research on Adolescence

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 649-670

  Barwick, Melanie A ^a,c   Siegel, Linda S ^b  

^a C M Hincks Institute

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c C M Hincks Institute   (Canada)

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