"Self-determination is what it's all about": What Post-secondary Students with Disabilities Tell us are Important considerations for success

Education and Training in Developmental Disabilities

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 234-242

  Thoma, Colleen A ^a   Getzel, Elizabeth Evans ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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