Children's Attendance Rates and Quality of Teacher-Child Interactions in At-Risk Preschool Classrooms: Contribution to Children's Expressive Language Growth

Child and Youth Care Forum

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 457-477

  Logan, Jessica A R ^a   Piasta, Shayne B ^a   Justice, Laura M ^a   Schatschneider, Christopher ^b,c   Petrill, Stephen ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attendance; Expressive language; Preschool

Indexed keywords

EID: 81855194155     PISSN: 10531890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10566-011-9142-x     Document Type: Article

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