Portraits of three adolescent students with Asperger's syndrome: Personal stories and how they can inform practice

Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 3-17

  Marks, Susan Unok ^a   Schrader, Carl ^b   Longaker, Trish ^b   Levine, Mark ^b  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b Behavioral Counseling and Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescent students; Asperger's syndrome; Autism; Autism spectrum disorder; Case studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748912860     PISSN: 07491425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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