Mild Intellectual Disabilities: Legacies and trends in concepts and educational practices

Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 54-68

  Polloway, Edward A ^a   Lubin, Jacqueline ^b   Patton, James R ^c   David Smith, J ^d  

^a LYNCHBURG COLLEGE   (United States)

^b St Lucia Ministry of Education and Culture   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

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