Upper and Lower Extremity Midline Crossing Effects Upon Adults with Mild to Moderate Mental Retardation

Education and Training in Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 386-394

  Woodard, Rebecca J ^b   Surburg, Paul R ^a   Lewis, Colleen A ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BALL STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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