Snoezelen: Empirical Review of Product Representation

Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 138-147

  Botts, Betsy H ^a   Hershfeldt, Patti A ^b   Christensen Sandfort, Robyn J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDA   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

empirical; sensory; Snoezelen

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993740347     PISSN: 10883576     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1088357608318949     Document Type: Article

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