Head Start children at third grade: preliminary special education identification and placement of children with emotional, learning, and related disabilities.
Although children in Head Start are at risk for emotional or behavioral problems, little is known about their later need for special education. There is evidence that children at risk for emotional disturbance are underidentified or misidentified in other special education categories. We examined...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Child & Family Studies Vol. 8; no. 3; pp. 285 - 304 |
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Springer Science & Business Media B.V.
September 1999
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