Measures to monitor developmental disabilities quality assurance: A study of reliability

Education and Training in Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 66-76

  Dodder, Richard A ^a   Foster, Luann H ^b   Bolin, Brien L ^b  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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