'Who did what?': A participatory action research project to increase group capacity for advocacy

Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 10-22

  Garcia Iriarte, E ^a   Kramer, J C ^a   Kramer, J M ^a   Hammel, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Control; Intellectual disability; Participatory action research; Self advocacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 57349177581     PISSN: 13602322     EISSN: 14683148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-3148.2008.00431.x     Document Type: Article

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