Effective academic interventions in the United Kingdom: does the ‘specific’ in specific learning difficulties (disabilities) now make a difference to the way we teach?

Educational and Child Psychology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 71-83

  Reason, Rea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 3943078863     PISSN: 02671611     EISSN: 23968702     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.53841/bpsecp.1998.15.1.71     Document Type: Article

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