Self-determination and inclusion: Are students with mild mental retardation more self-determined in regular classrooms?

Education and Training in Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 357-362

  Zhang, Dalun ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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