Parents labelled with intellectual disability: Position of the IASSID SIRG on parents and parenting with intellectual disabilities: IASSID special interest research group on parents and parenting with intellectual disabilities

Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 296-307

  McConnell, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Capacity building; Intellectual disability; Learning difficulties; Parenting; Parents

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149353676     PISSN: 13602322     EISSN: 14683148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-3148.2008.00435.x     Document Type: Article

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