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Cathryn Knight; Emily Lowthian; Tom Crick; Carys Jones; Anna Rawlings; Hoda Abbasizanjani; Sarah Rees – British Educational Research Journal, 2025
In the context of an emerging new additional learning needs (ALN) system in Wales, this research explores who was likely to be identified with special educational needs (SEN) under the previous system. Our study reveals analysis of linked Welsh education and health data on SEN identification in learners in mainstream education settings born…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Students with Disabilities, Disability Identification, Mainstreaming
Johny Daniel; Hsin Wang – Review of Education, 2023
This study aims to investigate gender differences in the identification for special educational needs services within the context of England. Gender disparities in disability identification have long been of concern, impacting tailored support and opportunities for female students. By utilising population-level data, we seek to ascertain the…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Students with Disabilities, Disability Identification, Disproportionate Representation
Eileen R. Weatherall – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this research study was to investigate the perspectives of educational diagnosticians regarding male and female students receiving special education services in central Texas public schools. Since educational diagnosticians are the professionals who determine if students are eligible for special education services by administering…
Descriptors: Special Education, Students with Disabilities, Public Schools, Eligibility
Mariam F. Alnaim; Samer Mohamed A. Drei – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2023
This study aimed to identify the reality of diagnosing learning disabilities among students with hearing impairments from the point of view of their teachers. The descriptive survey method was used. The study sample included (152) male and female teachers from deaf schools in Saudi Arabia. The results of the study showed that the level of reality…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Disabilities, Hearing Impairments, Students with Disabilities
Olsson, Åsa – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2023
This study provides a systematic review of previous research about teachers' gendered perceptions of pupils with diagnoses or symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). This review was conducted using the databases Scopus, Web of Science and ERIC. Nineteen articles were selected after narrowing down a total of 121 articles, in…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Gender Differences, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Literature Reviews
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
Steer, Joanne, Ed. – Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2021
Written by expert professionals, this book provides comprehensive information about available support for women and girls with ADHD and tips for clinicians and professionals who work with them. The symptoms of ADHD are no less impairing in females than males, but can be missed or misunderstood. This book arms professionals, parents, and women…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Females, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Gender Differences
Alshamry, Fareada Faiz; Eldian, Kowthar Jamal – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2021
The aim of the research is to identify the reality of learning disabilities teachers' application of the diagnostic tests with of some variables (gender, experience, academic qualification) in Jubail city. The descriptive comparative approach was used for its suitability to the nature of the current research. The sample was chosen from the…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Diagnostic Tests, Teacher Characteristics, Gender Differences
Ntiakoh-Ayipah, Daniel; Dogbe, Joslin Alexei; Opoku, Maxwell Peprah; Twum, Frank; Owusu, Michael; Kumi, Hammond; Afari, Priscilla; Donnir, Gordon – Journal of International Special Needs Education, 2020
In recent times, international deliberations have centered on inaccessibility of essential services to persons with disabilities. These systematic discriminations have accounted for high rates of poverty and deplorable living standards among persons with disabilities. Deliberate attempts are being made to safeguard the rights and well-being of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Elementary School Students, Incidence
Mohamed Aladsani – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The educational system in Saudi Arabia has been developing since the establishment of the Directorate of Knowledge (currently the Ministry of Education) in 1925. Although the teacher preparation programs in Saudi Arabia have been developed under the Ministry of Education, general education teacher preparation programs in the country do not require…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Academically Gifted, Students with Disabilities
McConkey, Roy – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2020
The rise in prevalence rates of children with ASD is well documented internationally. In the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland has consistently higher rates although the reasons for this are not clear. Using data from the annual school census that is held each year in Northern Ireland, changes in the numbers and prevalence rates of pupils…
Descriptors: Incidence, Students with Disabilities, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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
Paul L. Morgan; Adrienne D. Woods; Yangyang Wang; Cecelia A. Gloski – Exceptional Children, 2023
We used time-varying effect modelling of two very large samples of fourth-grade students (N[subscript reading] = 148,240, N[subscript mathematics] = 152,220) to investigate associations between adoption and over-time implementation of a de facto cap on special education service receipt and over-time likelihoods of disability identification from…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Elementary School Students, Correlation, Special Education
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
Morgan, Paul L.; Woods, Adrienne D.; Wang, Yangyang; Hillemeier, Marianne M.; Farkas, George; Mitchell, Cynthia – Exceptional Children, 2020
Whether students of color are more or less likely to be identified as having disabilities than similarly situated students who are White in U.S. states with histories of de jure and de facto racial segregation is currently unknown. Unadjusted analyses of large samples of students attending elementary and middle schools in the U.S. South yielded…
Descriptors: Racial Segregation, Geographic Regions, Special Education, Minority Group Students
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