Children with reading disabilities: Does dynamic assessment help in the classification?

Learning Disability Quarterly

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 17-34

  Swanson, H Lee ^a   Howard, Crystal B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 14544274967     PISSN: 07319487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4126971     Document Type: Review

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