Interactive Technologies Research at Children’s Television Workshop

“G” is for Growing: Thirty Years of Research on Children and Sesame Street

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 215-230

  Revelle, Glenda L ^a,b   Medoff, Lisa ^c   Strommen, Erik F ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Children s Television Workshop   (United States)

^c Children s Television Workshop   (United States)

^d NONE

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EID: 85142579342     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781410605252-22     Document Type: Chapter

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