"I can speak for myself": Involving individuals with intellectual disabilities as research participants

Mental Retardation

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 216-227

  Mactavish, Jennifer B ^b   Mahon, Michael J ^b   Lutfiyya, Zana Marie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COGNITIVE DEFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTELLIGENCE; INTERVIEW; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH THERAPIES; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RESEARCH; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; MENTAL HEALTH THERAPIES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ADVOCACY; RESEARCH; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0034203785     PISSN: 00476765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1352/0047-6765(2000)038<0216:ICSFMI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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