Curriculum augmentation and adaptation strategies to promote access to the general curriculum for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities

Education and Training in Developmental Disabilities

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 199-212

  Lee, Suk Hyang ^a,b   Amos, Betty A ^a   Gragoudas, Stelios ^a   Lee, Youngsun ^a   Shogren, Karrie A ^a   Theoharis, Raschelle ^a   Wehmeyer, Michael L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

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