Ready or not: One home-based response to the school readiness dilemma

Early Child Development and Care

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 245-257

  Westheimer, Miriam ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

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EID: 0344575571     PISSN: 03004430     EISSN: 14768275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0300443971270120     Document Type: Article

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