Overcoming barriers to employment: Strategies of rehabilitation providers

Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 325-335

  Crudden, Adele ^a   Sansing, William ^a   Butler, Stacy ^a  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33749557481     PISSN: 0145482X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0145482x0509900602     Document Type: Article

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