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Montana Office of Public Instruction, 2013
The Montana Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) is administered by the Montana Office of Public Instruction every two years to students in grades 7 through 12. The purpose of the survey is to help monitor the prevalence of behaviors that not only influence youth health, but also put youth at risk for the most significant health and social problems…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Adolescents, High School Students, Suicide
Halfon, Neal; Houtrow, Amy; Larson, Kandyce; Newacheck, Paul W. – Future of Children, 2012
Americans' perceptions of childhood disability have changed dramatically over the past century, as have their ideas about health and illness, medical developments, threats to children's health and development, and expectations for child functioning. Neal Halfon, Amy Houtrow, Kandyce Larson, and Paul Newacheck examine how these changes have…
Descriptors: Incidence, Disabilities, Children, Disease Incidence
National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2010
This annual publication provides a summary of training activity in apprenticeships and traineeships in Australia, including information on training rates, completion rates, attrition rates, training within the trades and duration of training. The figures in this publication are derived from the National Apprentice and Trainee Collection no.63…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Trainees, Apprenticeships
DeVoe, Jill Fleury; Darling-Churchill, Kristen E. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2008
This document examines the educational progress of American Indian/Alaska Native children and adults and challenges in their education. This report shows that over time more American Indian/Alaska Native students have gone on to college and that their attainment expectations have increased. Despite these gains, progress has been uneven and…
Descriptors: American Indians, Alaska Natives, American Indian Education, Outcomes of Education
Hintermair, Manfred – American Annals of the Deaf, 2007
The German version of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) was used in a study to examine its usefulness in diagnosing socioemotional problems of deaf and hard of hearing children. The SDQ parent version was completed by 213 mothers and 213 fathers. The factor structure and reliability were tested, and the prevalence rate of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Partial Hearing, Statistical Data, Incidence
Chesson, Harrell W.; Harrison, Paul; Scotton, Carol R.; Varghese, Beena – Evaluation Review, 2005
Since the onset of the AIDS epidemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has allocated several billion dollars for the prevention of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in the United States. Using state-level data from 1981 to 1998, the authors found that greater amounts of prevention funding in a given year are…
Descriptors: Prevention, Incidence, Disease Control, Diseases
Administration for Children, Youth, and Families (DHHS), Washington, DC. Head Start Bureau. – 1986
The report provides data on services to handicapped children within the Head Start program during the school year 1984-85. Highlights include the following: the number of handicapped children served by Head Start increased by 2,563 from the previous year to 61,898; children professionally diagnosed as handicapped accounted for 12.2% of total…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Disabilities, Incidence, Intervention
Roistacher, Richard C.; And Others – 1981
The project was designed to investigate sources of available data on the incidence, prevalence, diagnostic conditions, functional limitations, and activity restrictions of the disabled population in the United States, and to design a comprehensive data system. Difficulties, both conceptual and practical in estimating incidence and prevalence are…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Incidence, Information Systems
National Association of State Directors of Special Education, Washington, DC. – 1988
The report describes Year 1 activities under Part H, the Infant and Toddler Program, of Public Law 99-457, the Education of the Handicapped Amendments of 1986. State contacts for the Part H Program were asked to respond to questions in several major areas including: Interagency Coordinating Council, the use of Part H funds, the status of states'…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Compliance (Legal), Disabilities, Federal Legislation
Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1981
The report by the General Accounting Office examines the status of education for handicapped children in 10 states. P.L. 94-142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, is reviewed briefly, and the states' compliance with the following aspects was assessed: eligibility criteria, individualized educational programs, and provision of a free…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Definitions, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education

Shiono, Patricia H.; Quinn, Linda Sandham – Future of Children, 1994
The living arrangements of American children have been strongly affected by revolutionary social changes in the past 30 years, including a large decrease in first-marriage rates and an increase in divorce. Each year more than one million children are affected by divorce. Statistics on divorce and social trends are presented. (SLD)
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Children, Demography, Divorce
Burt, Martha R. – 1992
This report presents the results of a federally mandated study done to determine the best means of identifying, locating, and counting homeless children and youth, for the purpose of facilitating their successful participation in school and other educational activities. Several alternative approaches to obtaining consistent national estimates of…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Children, Cost Estimates, Data Collection