Students' Behavioural Intentions Towards Peers with Disability

Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 322-332

  Brown, Hilary K ^a   Ouellette Kuntz, Hélène ^a,b   Lysaght, Rosemary ^a   Burge, Philip ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b South Eastern Ontario Community University Research Alliance in Intellectual Disabilities   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Behavioural intentions; Homophily; Intellectual disability; Physical disability

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958292121     PISSN: 13602322     EISSN: 14683148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-3148.2010.00616.x     Document Type: Article

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