"I like others to not try to fix me": Agency, independence, and autism

Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 364-375

  Rossetti, Zachary ^a   Ashby, Christine ^b   Arndt, Katrina ^c   Chadwick, Marilyn ^b   Kasahara, Maho ^b  

^a PROVIDENCE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ST JOHN FISHER COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT;

ADULT; AUTISTIC DISORDER; COMMUNICATION; EDUCATION, SPECIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 58249087226     PISSN: 19349556     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1352/2008.46:364-375     Document Type: Article

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