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Are Minority Children Disproportionately Represented in Early Intervention and Early Childhood Special Education?

April 12, 2013

Website Link  http://edr.sagepub.com/content/41/9/339.full.pdf+html

Study findings recently published in the Educational Researcher examine whether children who are racial-ethnic minorities are disproportionately represented in early intervention and/or early childhood special education (EI/ECSE). The researchers analyzed 7,950 48-month-olds participating in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort (ECLS-B), a nationally representative data set of children born in the United States in 2001. Findings indicated that by 48 months of age, minority children are disproportionately underrepresented in EI/ECSE.