Designing serious games for people with dual diagnosis: Learning disabilities and sensory impairments

Design and Implementation of Educational Games: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 424-439

  Brown, David J ^a   Standen, Penny ^b   Evett, Lindsay ^a   Battersby, Steven ^a   Shopland, Nick ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-781-7.ch027     Document Type: Chapter

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