Explaining disability: Parents' stories of raising children with visual impairments in a sighted world

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 143-169

  Jenks, Elaine Bass ^a  

^a WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blindness; Disability; Narrative; Visual impairment

Indexed keywords

EID: 16244385946     PISSN: 08912416     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0891241604272064     Document Type: Article

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