Attitudes of Japanese adults toward persons with intellectual disability: Effect of perceptions concerning intellectual disability

Education and Training in Developmental Disabilities

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 58-69

  Tachibana, Toshiaki ^a  

^a Otani University   (Japan)

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