One-to-one paraprofessionals for students with disabilities in inclusive classrooms: Is conventional wisdom wrong?

Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-13

  Giangreco, Michael F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CURRICULUM; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DISABILITY; EDUCATION; HUMAN; MANAGEMENT; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PEER GROUP; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIALIZATION; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ALLIED HEALTH PERSONNEL; CHILD; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; EDUCATION OF MENTALLY RETARDED; EDUCATION, SPECIAL; HUMANS; MAINSTREAMING (EDUCATION); PEER GROUP; POLICY MAKING; PREJUDICE; SOCIALIZATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77954504229     PISSN: 19349556     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1352/1934-9556-48.1.1     Document Type: Article

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