Responsiveness to Intervention: An Alternative Approach to the Identification of Learning Disabilities

Frank M. Gresham, University of California-Riverside
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NOTES

Portions of this paper previously appeared in Bocian, K., Beebe, M., MacMillan, D., & Gresham, F. M. (1999). Competing paradigms in learning disabilities classification by schools and the variations in the meaning of discrepant achievement. Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 14, 1-14.

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