Generating reading interventions through experimental analysis of academic skills: Demonstration and empirical evaluation

School Psychology Review

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 395-414

  Daly III, Edward J ^a   Persampieri, Michael ^a   McCurdy, Merilee ^a   Gortmaker, Valerie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

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