Positioning, strategizing, and charming: How students with autism construct identities in relation to disability

Disability and Society

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 547-561

  Baines, AnnMarie D ^a  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

autism; ethnography; identity; positioning theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861535607     PISSN: 09687599     EISSN: 13600508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09687599.2012.662825     Document Type: Article

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