Treatment acceptability: A critical dimension for overcoming teacher resistance to implementing adaptations for mainstreamed students

Reading and Writing Quarterly

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 91-108

  Gajria, Meenakshi ^a   Salend, Spencer J ^b  

^a St Thomas Aquinas College   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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EID: 0002192280     PISSN: 10573569     EISSN: 15210693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1057356960120107     Document Type: Article

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