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Clinical Judgments in Identifying and Teaching Children with Language-Based Reading Difficulties

Barbara W. Wise & Lynn Snyder, University of Colorado
Learning Disabilities Summit: Building a Foundation for the Future White Papers

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  1. The Office of Special Education Projects for inviting us to write the paper and providing support for it,
  2. The National Science Foundation for an ITR-HCI grant IIS-0086107: Creating the Next Generation of Animated Conversational Agents, to Ron Cole at the Center for Spoken Language Research (CSLR) at the University of Colorado, which also partially supported its writing,
  3. The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development for support from grants HD 11683 and HD 22223 to Richard Olson and Barbara Wise;
  4. Boulder Valley Schools staff and students for participation and support of some of the research reported in this chapter,
  5. Our research assistant, Nikki Davis, for finding so many good articles, and
  6. Our colleague Dr. Ron Cole of CSLR for encouraging us to write it.

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