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  1. Department of Special Education, University of Kansas, 1200 Sunnyside Avenue, Room 3136, 66045, Lawrence, KS, USA

    Michael L. Wehmeyer

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Wehmeyer, M.L. (2011). Intellectual Disability. In: Levesque, R.J.R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Adolescence. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1695-2_221

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