LATCH-ON: A program to develop literacy in young adults with Down syndrome

Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 40-49

  Moni, Karen B ^a   Jobling, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

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