Families of Autistic Children: Psychological Functioning of Mothers
- 1 December 1990
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Clinical Child Psychology
- Vol. 19 (4) , 371-379
- https://doi.org/10.1207/s15374424jccp1904_9
Abstract
Compared mothers of 20 autistic, 20 Down syndrome, and 20 developmentally normal children matched on several pertinent demographic variables. Results revealed that mothers of autistic children repo...Keywords
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