'Travel in parallel with us for a while': Sensory geographies of autism

Canadian Geographer

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 462-475

  Davidson, Joyce ^a   Henderson, Victoria L ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

autism; autobiography; disability; geographical imagination; politics of difference

Indexed keywords

BIOGRAPHY; DISABILITY; PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 78649849286     PISSN: 00083658     EISSN: 15410064     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0064.2010.00309.x     Document Type: Article

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