Thinking Positively: How Some Characteristics of ADHD Can Be Adaptive and Accepted in the Classroom

Childhood Education

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 196-200

  Sherman, Jody ^a   Rasmussen, Carmen ^a   Baydala, Lola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

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EID: 56449096593     PISSN: 00094056     EISSN: 21620725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00094056.2006.10522822     Document Type: Article

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