Response to intervention: Where it came from and where it’s going

Preventing School Failure

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 173-182

  Preston, Angela I ^a   Wood, Charles L ^a   Stecker, Pamela M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^b CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

LD; Learning disabilities; Multitiered interventions; Response to intervention; RTI

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027376152     PISSN: 1045988X     EISSN: 19404387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1045988X.2015.1065399     Document Type: Article

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