Preparing Professionals for Partnerships with Parents of Students with Disabilities: Textbook Considerations Regarding Cultural Diversity

Exceptional Children

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 513-528

  Sileo, Thomas W ^a   Prater, Mary Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

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EID: 0039661627     PISSN: 00144029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/001440299806400407     Document Type: Article

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