Instruments Assessing Quality of Life

Assessing Adults with Intellectual Disabilities: A Service Providers' Guide

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 119-137

  Cummins, Robert A ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Instrument appraisal; Intellectual disability; Psychometric theory; Quality of life; Resident education

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954509665     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470773697.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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