Children's attitudes toward peers with disabilities: The Israeli perspective

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 811-814

  Tirosh, Emanuel ^a,c   Schanin, Michael ^c   Reiter, Shunit ^b  

^a BNAI ZION MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CANADA; COGNITION; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISABLED PERSON; GENDER; ISRAEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD;

EID: 0031449694     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.1997.tb07548.x     Document Type: Article

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