Reading media used by higher-education students and graduates with visual impairments in Greece

Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness

Volumn 103, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 772-777

  Papadopoulos, Konstantinos ^a   Koutsoklenis, Athanasios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA   (Greece)

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EID: 72749101539     PISSN: 0145482X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0145482x0910301107     Document Type: Article

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