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The burden on a family having a child with special needs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 June 2014

Michael Fitzgerald
Affiliation:
Department of Child Psychiatry, St. James's Hospital, Dublin 8
Brigid Butler
Affiliation:
St. John of God Community Services, St. Teresa's, Tallaght, Dublin 24
Anthony Kinsella
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Dublin Institute of Technology, Kevin Street, Dublin 8

Abstract

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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