Teaching Staff Members to Provide Choice Opportunities for Adults with Multiple Disabilities

Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 12-21

  Salmento, Mary ^a   Bambara, Linda M ^a  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0346511482     PISSN: 10983007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/109830070000200103     Document Type: Article

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