Access in mind: A review of approaches to accessible information for people with learning disabilities

Understanding and Promoting Access for People with Learning Difficulties: Seeing the Opportunities and Challenges of Risk

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 23-42

  Walmsley, Jan ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84905207896     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203092125     Document Type: Chapter

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