Is our legal, health care and social support infrastructure neurodiverse enough? How far are the aims of the neurodiversity movement fulfilled for those diagnosed with cognitive disability and learning disability?

Tizard Learning Disability Review

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 30-37

  Mackenzie, Robin ^a   Watts, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b Maidstone CAMHS ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autism spectrum; Intellectual disability; Learning disability; Neurodevelopmental disorders; Neurodiversity

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551634690     PISSN: 13595474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5042/tldr.2011.0005     Document Type: Article

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