Parents with learning disabilities: Service audit and development

British Journal of Learning Disabilities

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 128-132

  Woodhouse, Anne E ^a   Green, Gill ^a   Davies, Sara ^a  

^a ABERTAWE BRO MORGANNWG UNIVERSITY HEALTH BOARD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Audit; Disabilities; Learning; Parents; Service development

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141554921     PISSN: 13544187     EISSN: 14683156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1468-3156.2001.00059.x     Document Type: Article

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