‘Lit For Life’: Using Literacy Intervention to Foster Meaningful Life Changes for High-risk Youth with Reading Disabilities

Substantial evidence indicates that maltreatment places abused children at great risk for illiteracy and damaging self-perceptions of competency and worth. Given that academic ability and self-concept are reciprocally related and mutually reinforcing, it was hypothesized that participation in an in...

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Main Author: Regina, Andrea Michelle
Other Authors: Willows, Dale
Language:en_ca
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/34863