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Juan Luis Blanco-López1, Diego Fernández-Lázaro2, Leticia Sánchez-Valdeón3,4

  • 1Psychology Department, ASPRONA-León, León, Spain.

Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability
|August 4, 2025
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Quality of lifedeterminantsintellectual disabilitiespredictorsproxysupport needs

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