Expository discourse intervention: Helping school-age children and adolescents with language disorders master the language of the curriculum

Expository Discourse in Children, Adolescents, and Adults: Development and Disorders

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 241-274

  Ward Lonergan, Jeannene M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203848821     Document Type: Chapter

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