Gifted students with spatial strengths and sequential weaknesses: An overlooked and underidentified population

Roeper Review

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 91-96

  Mann, Rebecca L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

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EID: 85007879048     PISSN: 02783193     EISSN: 1940865X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02783190509554296     Document Type: Article

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