Specific learning disability and the right to education 2009 act: Call for action

Journal of Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 171-172

  Karande, S ^a   Gogtay, N J ^a  

^a KEM HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; DYSGRAPHIA; DYSLEXIA; EDITORIAL; EDUCATION; EDUCATION PROGRAM; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; LEARNING DISORDER; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PHILOSOPHY; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; SELF ESTEEM; DISABLED PERSON; HUMAN RIGHTS; POLICY;

DISABLED PERSONS; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; LEARNING DISORDERS; PUBLIC POLICY;

EID: 77956389337     PISSN: 00223859     EISSN: 09722823     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0022-3859.68627     Document Type: Editorial

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