Genetic Disorders Associated with Intellectual Disability: An Early Development Perspective

The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Infant Development: Second Edition

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 308-334

  Fidler, Deborah J ^a   Daunhauer, Lisa ^a   Most, David E ^a   Switzky, Harvey ^b  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD); American Association on Mental Retardation (AAMR); Changing Approaches to Intellectual Disability; Early Development in Genetic Disorders Associated with Intellectual Disability; Early diagnosis of genetic disorders; Emerging behavioral phenotypes in early childhood; Genetic Disorders Associated with Intellectual Disability: An Early Development Perspective; Theoretical and practical issues in the study of emerging behavioral phenotypes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867330248     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444327588.ch12     Document Type: Chapter

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