'They know where to find us ....' Service providers' views on Early Support and minority ethnic communities

Disability and Society

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 223-234

  Temple, Bogusia ^a   Young, Alys ^b   Bolton, Joanna ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cross language communication; Disability; Early Support; Service provider views

Indexed keywords

EID: 42649137964     PISSN: 09687599     EISSN: 13600508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09687590801953986     Document Type: Article

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