Attitudes of Japanese Adults toward persons with intellectual disability: Relationship between attitudes and demographic variables

Education and Training in Developmental Disabilities

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 109-126

  Tachibana, Toshiaki ^a   Watanabe, Kanji ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

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