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The authors would like to express their gratitude to Dr. Reuven Feuerstein for making his material so freely available to them. The senior author still remembers very fondly the year he spent on sabbatical with Dr. Feuerstein at the Hadassah-WIZO-Canada Research Institute in 1971–72.

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Narrol, H., Bachor, D.G. An introduction to Feuerstein's approach to assessing and developing cognitive potential. Interchange 6, 2–16 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02145955

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