Modeling response to reading intervention in children with down syndrome: An examination of predictors of differential growth

Reading Research Quarterly

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 134-168

  Lemons, Christopher J ^a   Fuchs, Douglas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Article; Assessment; Childhood; Comprehension; Fluency; Special needs

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950905383     PISSN: 00340553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1598/RRQ.45.2.1     Document Type: Article

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