Impact of autistic children on the lives of mothers

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 2534-2540

  Koydemir, Selda ^a   Tosun, Ülkü ^a  

^a YEDITEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Autistic children; Consensual qualitative research; Mothers of autistic children; Special education; Turkish mothers

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649270880     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18770428     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2009.01.447     Document Type: Article

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