Special needs: Objective reality or personal construction? Judging reading difficulty after the Code of Practice

Educational Research

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 263-270

  Thomas, Gary ^a   Davis, Pauline ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assessment; Code of Practice; Reading difficulty

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010891942     PISSN: 00131881     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0013188970390302     Document Type: Article

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