Functional behavioral assessments: Legal requirements and challenges

School Psychology Review

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 239-251

  Drasgow, Erik ^b   Yell, Mitchell L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b NONE

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