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2018
Volume 114, Issue 5
  • ISSN: 0013-8274
  • E-ISSN: 2161-8895

Abstract

A high school teacher advocates for the use of the method in the selection and teaching of fiction about disability in the English language arts classroom, considering the , , and afforded disabled characters, as well as the of the author.

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