Enhancing Linguistic Performance: Parents and Teachers as Book Reading Partners for Children with Language Delays

Topics in Early Childhood Special Education

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 28-39

  Crain Thoreson, Catherine ^a   Dale, Philip S ^b  

^a WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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EID: 0039254557     PISSN: 02711214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/027112149901900103     Document Type: Article

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