Young Children's Attitudes Toward Peers with Intellectual Disabilities: Effect of the Type of School

Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 531-541

  Georgiadi, Maria ^a   Kalyva, Efrosini ^b   Kourkoutas, Elias ^a   Tsakiris, Vlastaris ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (Greece)

^c Special Needs Educator   (Greece)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Inclusion; Intellectual disabilities; Peers

Indexed keywords

ART; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; MALE; NOMENCLATURE; PEER GROUP; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHOOL;

ART; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY; MALE; PEER GROUP; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCHOOLS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 84867446717     PISSN: 13602322     EISSN: 14683148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-3148.2012.00699.x     Document Type: Article

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