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Schifter, Laura A. – Exceptional Children, 2016
This study examined when students with disabilities graduated high school and how graduation patterns differed for students based on selected demographic and educational factors. Utilizing statewide data on students with disabilities from Massachusetts from 2005 through 2012, the author conducted discrete-time survival analysis to estimate the…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Graduation, High School Graduates, Demography
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Kurth, Jennifer A.; Morningstar, Mary E.; Kozleski, Elizabeth B. – Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities, 2014
The purpose of this study is to analyze the Least Restrictive Environment (LRE) data that states and U.S. territories report from the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) and discuss the status of the most restrictive special education placement settings for students with disabilities. In this analysis, we found that (a) states do not set…
Descriptors: Student Placement, Special Education, Disabilities, Severe Disabilities
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Kikas, Eve; Mannamaa, Mairi; Kumari, Vaike; Ulst, Triin – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2008
The relationships among verbal skills of primary school students with learning disabilities and a typically developing comparison group were studied and compared with written tasks carried out in Estonian classrooms. Word defining, categorising/justifying, guessing, and memorising tasks were used. The participants were 251 students in Grades 2-4;…
Descriptors: Special Schools, Guessing (Tests), Learning Disabilities, Elementary School Students
Nomura, Tosuke – RIEEC Report, 1987
There has been serious confusion between the terms "infantile autism" and "emotional disorders" in Japan, especially as pertains to special education classes. Special classes for emotionally disturbed children began in Japan in 1969 with a rapid increase to over 2000 classes by the 1980's. However, most of the children…
Descriptors: Autism, Classification, Definitions, Developmental Disabilities