Learning disability nursing. Autism in adulthood: the concepts of identity and difference.
It was not until 1980 that autistic spectrum disorders were officially recognized as disorders of development and not of psychoses (Wing, 1996). (In this article the term 'autism' will be used to refer to all individuals diagnosed across the autistic spectrum, including people with Asperger syndrome...
| Publicado en: | British Journal of Nursing Vol. 9; no. 13; pp. 851 - 859 |
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| Formato: | case study tables/charts Journal Article |
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Mark Allen Holdings Limited
7/13/2000
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