Strategies and considerations for teaching an adolescent with down syndrome and Type I diabetes to self-administer insulin

Education and Training in Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 94-102

  Bosner, Sylvia M ^b   Belfiore, Phillip J ^a  

^a MERCYHURST COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NONE

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