Cardiovascular fitness of young canadian children with and without mental retardation

Education and Training in Developmental Disabilities

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 296-301

  Gillespie, Mike ^a,b  

^a Royal Hospital for Neurodisability   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL LONDON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

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