The role and responsibilities of teaching assistants in inclusive education: What's appropriate?

Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 114-119

  Minondo, Stacey ^a,b   Meyer, Luanna H ^a,c   Xin, Joy F ^a,d  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b New York City Board of Education ^*  (United States)

^c MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^d The College of New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

Inclusive programs; Role components; Teaching assistants

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748816902     PISSN: 07491425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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