What's at stake in the lives of people with intellectual disability? Part I: The power of naming, defining, diagnosing, classifying, and planning supports

Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 86-93

  Schalock, Robert L ^a   Luckasson, Ruth ^b  

^a Emeritus   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Classifying; Defining; Diagnosing; Intellectual disability; Naming

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; FAMILY; HUMAN; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; NOMENCLATURE;

FAMILY; HUMANS; INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 84877046353     PISSN: 19349491     EISSN: 19349556     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1352/1934-9556-51.2.086     Document Type: Article

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