Health, Safety, and Well-Being Reading Recognition Abilities of Young Parents with Functional Disabilities: Construction and Preliminary Validation of a Prescriptive Assessment Instrument

Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 349-366

  Tymchuk, Alexander J ^a,b   Groen, Annette ^a   Dolyniuk, Chrystina A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Disabilities; Parents; Reading

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034363189     PISSN: 1056263X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009484114146     Document Type: Article

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