Multiple Perspectives of Family Life

Down Syndrome Across the Life Span

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 159-173

  Cuskelly, Monica ^a   Jobling, Anne ^a   Chant, David ^a   Bower, Anna ^a   Hayes, Alan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Data collection; Disability; Employment; Social policy; Theory development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84954623660     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470777886.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

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