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The delivery of educational technical assistance services for children with special learning needs: A comment on Maggs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2016

Gregory C. Murphy*
Affiliation:
Preston Institute of Technology, Victoria

Abstract

Recently Maggs described a model for the delivery of technical assistance in special education settings in which he emphasized the importance to service delivery of the role played by consultant personnel. This paper identifies three fundamentally important influences on the work performance of consultants, whether they are working “traditionally” or within a model such as that proposed by Maggs.

Type
Viewpoints and Brief Reports
Copyright
Copyright © The Australian Association of Special Education 1980

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