Attitudes toward reading expressed by elementary school students diagnosed with learning disabilities

Reading Psychology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 271-282

  Lazarus, Belinda Davis ^a   Callahan, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN DEARBORN   (United States)

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EID: 84998005585     PISSN: 02702711     EISSN: 15210685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/027027100750061921     Document Type: Article

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