The question still remains: What happens when the curricular focus for students with severe disabilities shifts? A Reply to Courtade, Spooner, Browder, and Jimenez (2012)

Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 14-22

  Ayres, Kevin M ^a   Lowrey, K Alisa ^b   Douglas, Karen H ^c   Sievers, Courtney ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Gwinnett County Public Schools ^*  (United States)

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