“We don’t make trouble”: Vietnamese parents’ experiences of parent-teacher partnerships for their autistic children

Smith, J., Rabba, A. S., Dang, N. T., Datta, P., Dresens, E., Nguyen, H. T., Nguyen, K. V., Nguyen, P., Hall, G., Heyworth, M., Lawson, W., Lilley, R., Syeda, N., & Pellicano, E. (2023). “We don’t make trouble”: Vietnamese parents’ experiences of parent-teacher partnerships for their autistic children. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 103, 102142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rasd.2023.102142

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