Developmental differences in understanding the causes, controllability and chronicity of disabilities

Child: Care, Health and Development

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 479-488

  Smith, Lesley A ^a   Williams, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Causal understanding; Children; Disability; Explanations

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AGE FACTORS; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BLINDNESS; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; JUDGMENT; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL;

EID: 21044439207     PISSN: 03051862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2214.2005.00532.x     Document Type: Article

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