Effects of the "I can use effort" strategy on quality of student verbal contributions and individualized education program participation with third- and fourth-grade students with disabilities

Remedial and Special Education

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 184-194

  Neale, Melia H ^a   Test, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Elementary school(s); Instruction to promote self advocacy; Self advocacy self determination; Self determination; Single subject research methodology

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951779208     PISSN: 07419325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0741932508327462     Document Type: Article

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