Interdisciplinary Assessment of People with Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities

Assessing Adults with Intellectual Disabilities: A Service Providers' Guide

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 39-51

  Vlaskamp, Carla ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Intellectual disabilities; Interdisciplinary assessment; Learning disabilities; Mental retardation; Multiple disabilities

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890710173     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470773697.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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