The Changing Landscape of Disability in Childhood

@article{Halfon2012TheCL,
  title={The Changing Landscape of Disability in Childhood},
  author={Neal Halfon and Amy J. Houtrow and Kandyce Larson and Paul W. Newacheck},
  journal={The Future of Children},
  year={2012},
  volume={22},
  pages={13 - 42},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:29381113}
}
The authors offer a new and forward-looking definition of childhood disability that reflects emerging and developmentally responsive notions of childhood health and disability and highlights the relationship between health, functioning, and the environment.
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