Katherine Neas, deputy assistant secretary in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services at the U.S.
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The researchers are recommending increased government funding, more intensive equity audits in individual states and bringing states together to discuss how to address the problems identified in the report. “The disparities that are documented in this equity audit are not just unfair, they’re harmful.” “Early intervention, early childhood special education are vital supports for young children with special needs and their families,” said Steve Barnett, co-director of the National Institute for Early Education Research, which produced the report. The disparities were most pronounced among Black children, a discrepancy that the researchers noted made little sense given that school-age Black children are more likely than white children to be enrolled in special education. The report also found that Black, Hispanic and Asian children were less likely than white kids to be in early intervention or special education at young ages.
Meanwhile, 6% of kids ages 3 and 4 received special education services nationally, but that number ranged from 14% in Wyoming to under 3% in Alabama. At the high end, 10% of Massachusetts youngsters were enrolled in the program, compared to a low of just 1% in Arkansas and Hawaii. They found that 3.7% of children under age 3 received early intervention in the fall of 2020, but access was far from equitable. For the report, researchers looked at data from the 2020-2021 school year and evaluated trends between the 21 academic years.
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