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The Influence of Sociodemographics and Gender on the Disproportionate Identification of Minority Students as Having Learning Disabilities.

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Coutinho, Martha J.; Oswald, Donald P.; Best, Al M. – Remedial and Special Education, 2002

A study involving 4,141 schools investigated gender and race/ethnicity disproportionality among students identified as having learning disabilities. There was a clear association between ethnicity and gender and the odds of being identified as a student with learning disabilities. School sociodemographic factors also associated with the proportion…

Descriptors: Classification, Demography, Disability Identification, Educational Discrimination