Training teachers to use an inquiry-based task analysis to teach science to students with moderate and severe disabilities

Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 378-399

  Courtade, Ginevra R ^a   Browder, Diane M ^b   Spooner, Fred ^b   DiBiase, Warren ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

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

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