Response to Intervention as a Framework for the Prevention and Identification of Learning Disabilities: Which Comes First, Identification or Intervention?

Achieving the Radical Reform of Special Education: Essays in Honor of James M. Kauffman

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 15-35

  Boardman, Alison Gould ^a   Vaughn, Sharon ^b  

^a University of Colorado   (United States)

^b Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research   (United States)

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EID: 85144431808     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781315097657-3     Document Type: Chapter

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