The identities and social roles of people with an intellectual disability: challenging dominant cultural worldviews, values and mythologies

Disability and Society

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1345-1364

  Dorozenko, Kate P ^a   Roberts, Lynne D ^a   Bishop, Brian ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

causal layered analysis; identity; intellectual disability; Photovoice; stigma; worldviews

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948771805     PISSN: 09687599     EISSN: 13600508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09687599.2015.1093461     Document Type: Article

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