How do you understand "learning difficulties"? Towards a social theory of impairment

Mental Retardation

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 229-232

  Goodley, Dan ^a   Rapley, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LEARNING DISORDER; METHODOLOGY; SOCIOLOGY;

HUMANS; LEARNING DISORDERS; SOCIOLOGY;

EID: 0035376037     PISSN: 00476765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1352/0047-6765(2001)039<0229:HDYULD>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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