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Bryant G. Hopkins; Matthew Guzman; Scott A. Imberman; Adrea J. Truckenmiller; Katharine O. Strunk; Marisa H. Fisher – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2025
We use data from Michigan and an interrupted time series strategy to show how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted special education identifications and discontinuations. We find a substantial decrease in K-5 identifications and discontinuations during the 2019 to 2020 and 2020 to 2021 school years. Identifications fell by 19% and 12% in the first two…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Special Education, Disability Identification
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Armineh Hallaran – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2024
Black, Latinx and other minoritized students have long been overrepresented in the high-incidence disability classifications including Learning Disability, Emotional Disturbance, Intellectual Impairment, and Speech and Language Impairment. Inappropriate special education placement denies students access to the general education curriculum and…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Special Education, Students with Disabilities, Disability Identification
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Di Folco, Cécile; Guez, Ava; Peyre, Hugo; Ramus, Franck – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2022
The present study performed a systematic comparison of DSM-5 and ICD-11 diagnostic criteria for reading disability. We quantitatively investigated the consequences of using DSM-5 or ICD-11, and of the different ways of implementing each diagnostic criterion on the prevalence of reading disability. We did so in a representative sample of the…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Disability Identification, Grade 6, Gender Differences