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Chapter 4 - Communication in People with Intellectual Disability

from Section 1 - Understanding Intellectual Disability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 January 2019

By
Lauren Edwards
Edited by
Mark Scheepers  and
Mike Kerr
Mark Scheepers
Affiliation:
2gether NHS Trust
Mike Kerr
Affiliation:
Cardiff University
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Seminars in the Psychiatry of Intellectual Disability , pp. 42 - 52
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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