Response to instruction as a means of identifying students with reading/learning disabilities

Exceptional Children

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 391-409

  Vaughn, Sharon ^a   Linan Thompson, Sylvia ^a   Hickman, Peggy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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EID: 0242339935     PISSN: 00144029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/001440290306900401     Document Type: Article

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