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Disability and the ADA: Learning Impairment as a Disability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Brian J. Winner
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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 28 , Issue 4 , Winter 2000 , pp. 410 - 411
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2000

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