Siblings of persons with disabilities: Toward a research agenda

Mental Retardation

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 334-338

  Hodapp, Robert M ^a   Glidden, Laraine Masters ^b   Kaiser, Ann P ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ST MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DISABLED PERSON; HUMAN; RESEARCH; REVIEW; SIBLING; SIBLING RELATION;

ATTITUDE; CULTURE; DISABLED PERSONS; HUMANS; RESEARCH; SIBLING RELATIONS; SIBLINGS;

EID: 27544436181     PISSN: 00476765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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