What's in a name: Dual sensory impairment or deafblindness?

British Journal of Visual Impairment

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 198-207

  Wittich, Walter ^a,b,c   Southall, Kenneth ^d   Sikora, Lindsey ^e   Watanabe, Donald H ^a   Gagné, Jean Pierre ^b,f,g  

^a MAB Mackay Rehabilitation Centre CRIR   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Civil and Environmental Engineering   (Canada)

^d Institut Raymond Dewar CRIR   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^f CENTRE DE RECHERCHE   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Deafblindness; Dual sensory impairment; Knowledge transfer; Rehabilitation; Terminology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890215839     PISSN: 02646196     EISSN: 17445809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0264619613490519     Document Type: Review

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