Employers' Attitudes Toward Persons with Disabilities in the Workforce: Myths or Realities?

Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 2-10

  Unger, Darlene D ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84992839310     PISSN: 10883576     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/108835760201700101     Document Type: Article

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