Developing a participatory multidisciplinary team approach to enhance the quality of school start

Action Research

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 271-293

  Iversen, Synnøve ^a   Ellertsen, Bjørn ^a   Joacobsen, Svein Roar ^b   Råheim, Målfrid ^a   Knivsberg, Ann Mari ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b Educational and Psychological Services for Vesterålen and Lødingen   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

Author keywords

Action research; children with developmental problems and disorders; health promotion; multidisciplinary teamwork; participatory evaluation; school start

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748559867     PISSN: 14767503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1476750306066802     Document Type: Article

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