Accommodating remedial readers in the general education setting: Is listening-while-reading sufficient to improve factual and inferential comprehension?

Psychology in the Schools

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 37-45

  Schmitt, Ara J ^a   Hale, Andrea D ^b   McCallum, Elizabeth ^a   Mauck, Brittany ^c  

^a DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Madison County Public Schools ^*  (United States)

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EID: 78650064596     PISSN: 00333085     EISSN: 15206807     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pits.20540     Document Type: Article

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