Consanguineous Marriage and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities among Arab Bedouins Children of the Negev Region in Southern Israel: A Pilot Study
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1 Al-Qasemi Academic College of Education, Baqa Al-Gharbiyye, Israel 2 Negev Regional Center for Research Development, Beer-Sheva, Israel 3 KAYE Academic College of Education, Beer-Sheva, Israel 4 Department of Human Development and Psychoeducational Studies, School of Education, Howard University, Washington, DC, USA 5 Department of Psychology, Al-Quds University, Jerusalem, Israel 6 National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Jerusalem, Israel 7 Health Services, Division for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services, Jerusalem, Israel 8 Division of Pediatrics, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Mt Scopus Campus, Jerusalem, Israel 9 Kentucky Children’s Hospital, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, KY, USA *Correspondence: [email protected]
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