Functional reading for students with developmental disabilities who are linguistically diverse

Journal of Behavioral Education

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 25-33

  Rohena Diaz, Elba I ^a   Browder, Diane M ^b,c  

^a Allentown School District   (United States)

^b LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Mountaintop Campus   (United States)

Author keywords

Linguistically diverse; Moderate severe disabilities; Multicultural special education; Sight word reading

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011593895     PISSN: 10530819     EISSN: 15733513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02110475     Document Type: Article

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