LD summit: Important issues for the field of learning disabilities

Learning Disability Quarterly

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 297-305

  Elksnin, Linda K ^b   Bryant, Diane Pedrotty ^a   Gartland, Debi ^b   King Sears, Margaret ^b   Rosenberg, Michael S ^b   Scanlon, David ^b   Strosnider, Roberta ^b   Wilson, Rich ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0035733522     PISSN: 07319487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1511118     Document Type: Article

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