Cognitive outcomes of Sally Ward’s early language-based intervention with mothers and babies in longitudinal perspective: Lessons of Head Start revisited

Educational and Child Psychology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 51-66

  Opie, Morwenna ^a   Steele, Howard ^a   Ward, Sally ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33745060311     PISSN: 02671611     EISSN: 23968702     Source Type: Book Series    
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