A structured descriptive methodology: Increasing agreement between descriptive and experimental analyses

Education and Training in Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 55-66

  Freeman, Kurt A ^a   Anderson, Cynthia M ^b   Scotti, Joseph R ^b  

^a PACIFIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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