Eliciting information about knowledge structures in persons with mental retardation through the use of dynamic assessment and prototype theory

Education and Training in Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 99-109

  Zeppuhar, Mary Ellen ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

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