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Direct linkBryant 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
Download full textBryant Hopkins; Katharine O. Strunk; Scott Imberman; Adrea Truckenmiller; Matthew Guzman; Marissa Fisher – Education Policy Innovation Collaborative, 2023
We use data from Michigan and an interrupted time series (ITS) strategy to show how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted new special education classifications and discontinuations. We find a substantial decrease in K-5 classifications and discontinuations during the 2019-20 and 2020-21 school years. Classifications fell by 19 and 12 percent in these…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Special Education, Disability Identification
Anna Shapiro – Exceptional Children, 2023
There is growing evidence that school starting age impacts children's likelihood of receiving special education services, but less is known about variations in this effect. Using a regression discontinuity design, I found that the youngest students in a kindergarten cohort are 40% more likely (p < 0.001) to be placed in special education than…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, School Entrance Age, Special Education, Age Differences
Erin Peace Kilpatrick – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Black parents of young adults with high incidence disabilities provide salient support to their children during and after postsecondary planning processes in high school. These parents serve a vital role concerning their child with high incidence disabilities' postsecondary planning processes. School counselors are well-positioned as social…
Descriptors: Blacks, Parents, Young Adults, Students with Disabilities
Anna Katherine Shapiro – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Nearly 14% of students in the United States receive special education services in public schools (NCES, 2017). Special education programs serve students with a wide range of developmental differences and vary considerably across schools and districts (National Research Council, 1997). Likelihood of identification for special education services…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, School Entrance Age, Special Education, Age Differences
Shapiro, Anna – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2020
Much of the literature estimating disproportionality in special education identification rates has focused on socioeconomic status, race, and gender. However, recent evidence suggests that a student's school starting age also impacts the likelihood they receive special education services, particularly in the early grades. I build on the evidence…
Descriptors: School Entrance Age, Special Education, Disproportionate Representation, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
