'Surplus suffering': Differences between organizational understandings of Asperger's syndrome and those people who claim the 'disorder'

Disability and Society

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 761-776

  Clarke, Juanne ^a   Van Amerom, Gudrun ^a  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 36248932076     PISSN: 09687599     EISSN: 13600508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09687590701659618     Document Type: Article

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