Vocational rehabilitation outcomes of African American adults with specific learning disabilities

Journal of Rehabilitation

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 36-41

  Dunham, Mardis D ^b   Holliday, Gregory A ^a   Douget, Roy M ^a   Koller, James R ^a   Presberry, Richard ^a   Wooderson, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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