‘I liked the text about the little bird.’ Five intellectually disabled persons talk about texts

Monica Reichenberg

doi:10.1080/15017419.2012.676565

‘I liked the text about the little bird.’ Five intellectually disabled persons talk about texts

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research

Volume 15 (2013): Issue 2

By: Monica Reichenberg

Open Access

|May 2013

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