Specific Learning Difficulties (Dyslexia): Equal Opportunities Issues
- 1 March 1993
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in British Journal of Special Education
- Vol. 20 (1) , 30-34
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8578.1993.tb00026.x
Abstract
Their article raises important questions concerning the lack of attention to issues of equal opportunity in the literature on specific learning difficulties. The authors identify five objectives for professional practice and research.Keywords
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