Combined sensory impairment (deaf-blindness) in five percent of adults with intellectual disabilities

American Journal on Mental Retardation

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 254-262

  Meuwese Jongejeugd, Anneke ^a   Van Splunder, Jacques ^b   Vink, Marianne ^a   Stilma, Jan Sietse ^b   Van Zanten, Bert ^b   Verschuure, Hans ^a   Bernsen, Roos ^a   Evenhuis, Heleen ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; BLINDNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLINDNESS; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEAFNESS; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MENTAL RETARDATION; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; RISK; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 48749120590     PISSN: 08958017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1352/0895-8017(2008)113[254:CSIDIF]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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