Classroom-based interventions may be more effective than pull-out programs for speech–language pathology interventions for young children with specific language impairmentFootnote1

¹Abstracted from: McGinty, A. S., & Justice, L. (2006). Classroom-based versus pull-out interventions: A review of the experimental evidence. EBP Briefs, 1, 1–25.

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