Social support in the workplace for working-age adults with visual impairments

Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness

Volumn 103, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 393-402

  Papakonstantinou, Doxa ^a   Papadopoulos, Konstantinos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA   (Greece)

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EID: 68649085424     PISSN: 0145482X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0145482x0910300703     Document Type: Article

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