One State's perspective on the appropriate inclusion of deaf students in large-scale assessments

Testing Deaf Students in An Age of Accountability

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 115-135

  Foster, Courtney ^a  

^a Special Education Unit   (United States)

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