Special Educators as Intervention Specialists: Dynamic Systems and the Complexity of Intensifying Intervention for Students With Emotional and Behavioral Disorders

Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 173-186

  Farmer, Thomas W ^a   Sutherland, Kevin S ^b   Talbott, Elizabeth ^c   Brooks, Debbie S ^d   Norwalk, Kate ^e   Huneke, Michelle ^b  

^a Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

correlated constraints; dynamic systems; ecological theory; intensive interventions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84981164597     PISSN: 10634266     EISSN: 15384799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1063426616650166     Document Type: Article

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