Download or read book Special Education Safety Net Study written by Mary Ellen Parrish and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Safety Net Program Use Among Children with Autism written by Kristy A. Anderson and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Federal safety net programs play a significant role in the lives of many children with autism from low-income households. Without safety net benefits, families of children with autism may be unable to afford life's necessities like food, shelter, and medications. Despite its critical importance, however, safety net use is largely overlooked in autism research. The primary purpose of this dissertation was to examine the distribution, parameters, and determinants of federal safety net program use among a nationally representative sample of children, ages 3-17 years, with autism from low-income households. Drawing from the 2016-2017 National Survey of Children's Health, the study employed descriptive and multivariate logistic regression analyses to examine how predisposing, enabling, and need factors influence participation in the following four safety net programs: cash assistance from a government welfare program; the woman infants and children (WIC) program; food stamps or supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits (SNAP); and free or reduced-cost breakfasts or lunches at school. The study compared the statistics for children with autism spectrum disorder to children with special health care needs who did not have autism, and children who did not have a special healthcare need or autism. Findings revealed that, even among low-income households, children with autism differed from children with other special healthcare needs in a number of ways: (a) they had poorer health and used and needed more services, (b) they were more likely to be Hispanic and from households with at least one immigrant parent, and (c) they were less likely to reside in the South but more likely to reside in the West. Children in the autism group had significantly higher levels of safety net use across all individual programs except for WIC. They also had higher levels of any safety net use and concurrent use, relative to comparison groups. In general, the magnitude and statistical significance of group differences were larger between children with autism and those with no special healthcare needs. Group differences in safety net outcomes generally persisted after controlling for predisposing characteristics, indicating that factors other than disability severity and sociodemographic characteristics contributed to group differences. Public health insurance and financial need played an important role in attenuating group differences in safety net program use and concurrent use. Findings also indicate that the relationship between public health insurance and safety net program use was explained in part, by variability in financial need. Despite the finding that children with autism from low-income households were more likely to use at least one safety net program than comparison groups, a sizeable proportion of children in the ASD group (14%) were still disconnected from all four safety net programs. Many of these children experienced material hardship with nearly two-thirds (64%) of disconnected parents of children with ASD reporting difficulty meeting basic needs at some point and about a third (34%) having to reduce work to care for their child. Having higher material hardship despite having access to safety net benefits seems to indicate challenges within existing safety net policies in being responsive to the needs of children with autism. Findings from this study raise important policy questions regarding proposed budget cuts for certain safety net programs, changes in program eligibility, and the role that public health insurance programs have on promoting access to the economic safety net. Future research about the economic security of children with ASD and their families could focus on the following five areas of inquiry: the analysis of subpopulations of low-income children with autism by race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic position; the consideration of multiple indicators of material hardship and financial burden; the assessment of the subpopulation of children with autism who do not receive safety net benefits despite being eligible; the identification of factors that drive group differences in federal safety net program use; and the examination of the role that safety net programs have in ameliorating the adverse effects of poverty for children with autism and their families.
Download or read book America s Health Care Safety Net written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2000-09-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's Health Care Safety Net explains how competition and cost issues in today's health care marketplace are posing major challenges to continued access to care for America's poor and uninsured. At a time when policymakers and providers are urgently seeking guidance, the committee recommends concrete strategies for maintaining the viability of the safety netâ€"with innovative approaches to building public attention, developing better tools for tracking the problem, and designing effective interventions. This book examines the health care safety net from the perspectives of key providers and the populations they serve, including: Components of the safety netâ€"public hospitals, community clinics, local health departments, and federal and state programs. Mounting pressures on the systemâ€"rising numbers of uninsured patients, decline in Medicaid eligibility due to welfare reform, increasing health care access barriers for minority and immigrant populations, and more. Specific consequences for providers and their patients from the competitive, managed care environmentâ€"detailing the evolution and impact of Medicaid managed care. Key issues highlighted in four populationsâ€"children with special needs, people with serious mental illness, people with HIV/AIDS, and the homeless.
Download or read book Wrightslaw Special Education Legal Developments and Cases 2019 written by Peter Wright and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wrightslaw Special Education Legal Developments and Cases 2019 is designed to make it easier for you to stay up-to-date on new cases and developments in special education law.Learn about current and emerging issues in special education law, including:* All decisions in IDEA and Section 504 ADA cases by U.S. Courts of Appeals in 2019* How Courts of Appeals are interpreting the two 2017 decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court* Cases about discrimination in a daycare center, private schools, higher education, discrimination by licensing boards in national testing, damages, higher standards for IEPs and "least restrictive environment"* Tutorial about how to find relevant state and federal cases using your unique search terms
Download or read book Family Policy and the American Safety Net written by Janet Zollinger Giele and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2013 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family Policy and the American Safety Net shows how families adapt to economic and demographic change. Government programs provide a safety net against the new risks of modern life. Family policy includes any public program that helps families perform their four universal obligations of caregiving, income provision, shelter, and transmission of citizenship. In America, this means that child care, health care, Social Security, unemployment insurance, housing, the quality of neighborhood schools, and anti-discrimination and immigration measures are all key elements of a de facto family policy. Yet many students and citizens are unaware of the history and importance of these programs. This book argues that family policy is as important as economic and defense policy to the future of the nation, a message that is relevant to students in the social sciences, social policy, and social work as well as to the public at large. .
Download or read book Special Education Safety Net Workgroup written by Mary Ellen Parrish and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Testing the Social Safety Net written by Martha R. Burt and published by The Urban Insitute. This book was released on 1985 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Complete Guide to Special Education written by Linda Wilmshurst and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an insider's view of the special education process for parents and teachers This book explores the special education process-from testing and diagnosis to IEP meetings and advocating for special needs children. Step by step the authors reveal the stages of identification, assessment, and intervention, and help readers to better understand special needs children's legal rights and how to become an active, effective member of a child's educational team. Grounded in more than twenty-five years of working with parents and educators, the authors provide significant insight into what they have learned about the special education. This book fills the gap in the literature for the millions of children receiving special education services and the parents who are clamoring for information on this topic. Includes valuable tools, checklists, sample forms, and advice for working with special education students Demystifies the special education process, from testing and diagnosis to IEP meetings and advocating for children New editions covers Response-to-Intervention (RTI), a new approach to diagnosing learning disabilities in the classroom; expanded coverage of autism spectrum disorders and bipolar disorder; and a revamped Resources section.
Download or read book America s Health Care Safety Net written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2000-08-04 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's Health Care Safety Net explains how competition and cost issues in today's health care marketplace are posing major challenges to continued access to care for America's poor and uninsured. At a time when policymakers and providers are urgently seeking guidance, the committee recommends concrete strategies for maintaining the viability of the safety netâ€"with innovative approaches to building public attention, developing better tools for tracking the problem, and designing effective interventions. This book examines the health care safety net from the perspectives of key providers and the populations they serve, including: Components of the safety netâ€"public hospitals, community clinics, local health departments, and federal and state programs. Mounting pressures on the systemâ€"rising numbers of uninsured patients, decline in Medicaid eligibility due to welfare reform, increasing health care access barriers for minority and immigrant populations, and more. Specific consequences for providers and their patients from the competitive, managed care environmentâ€"detailing the evolution and impact of Medicaid managed care. Key issues highlighted in four populationsâ€"children with special needs, people with serious mental illness, people with HIV/AIDS, and the homeless.
Download or read book Special Education s Failed System written by Joel Macht and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1998 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Special education's current system for determining which students are eligible for supportive classroom services is theoretically and mechanically flawed, as this book thoroughly demonstrates, while providing an alternative model. Macht proposes a model for determining which students are eligible for supportive classroom services. His model resolves all eligibility issues by advocating direct assessment of all students' entering skills, rather than assessing intellectual potential as a means for determining a student's capabilities. It demands that general education assume responsibility for its diverse children and admonishes general education that it can no longer rely on special education to provide an available safety net.
Download or read book Handbook of Special Education written by James M. Kauffman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-05-15 with total page 1751 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Special education is now an established part of public education in the United States—by law and by custom. However, it is still widely misunderstood and continues to be dogged by controversies related to such things as categorization, grouping, assessment, placement, funding, instruction, and a variety of legal issues. The purpose of this 13-part, 57-chapter handbook is to help profile and bring greater clarity to this sprawling and growing field. To ensure consistency across the volume, chapter authors review and integrate existing research, identify strengths and weaknesses, note gaps in the literature, and discuss implications for practice and future research. Key features include: Comprehensive Coverage—Fifty-seven chapters cover all aspects of special education in the United States including cultural and international comparisons. Issues & Trends—In addition to synthesizing empirical findings and providing a critical analysis of the status and direction of current research, chapter authors discuss issues related to practice and reflect on trends in thinking. Categorical Chapters—In order to provide a comprehensive and comparative treatment of the twelve categorical chapters in section IV, chapter authors were asked to follow a consistent outline: Definition, Causal Factors, Identification, Behavioral Characteristics, Assessment, Educational Programming, and Trends and Issues. Expertise—Edited by two of the most accomplished scholars in special education, chapter authors include a carefully chosen mixture of established and rising young stars in the field. This book is an appropriate reference volume for anyone (researchers, scholars, graduate students, practitioners, policy makers, and parents) interested in the state of special education today: its research base, current issues and practices, and future trends. It is also appropriate as a textbook for graduate level courses in special education.
Download or read book The State of the System written by Paul W. Bennett and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2020-09-23 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last fifty years, Canada's public schools have been absorbed into a modern education system that functions much like Max Weber's infamous iron cage. Crying out for democratic school-level reform, the system is now a centralized, bureaucratic fortress that, every year, becomes softer on standards for students, less accessible to parents, further out of touch with communities, and surprisingly unresponsive to classroom teachers. Exploring the nature of the Canadian education order in all its dimensions, The State of the System explains how public schools came to be so bureaucratic, confronts the critical issues facing kindergarten to grade 12 public schools in all ten provinces, and addresses the need for systemic reform. Going beyond a diagnosis of the stresses, strains, and ills present in the system, Paul Bennett proposes a bold plan to re-engineer schools on a more human scale as the first step in truly reforming public education. In place of school consolidation and managerialism, one-size-fits-all uniformity, limited school choice, and the "success-for-all" curriculum, Bennett advocates for a new set of priorities: decentralize school governance, deprogram education ministries and school districts, listen to parents and teachers, and revitalize local education democracy. Tackling the thorny issues besetting contemporary school systems in Canada, The State of the System issues a clarion call for more responsive, engaged, and accountable public schools.
Download or read book Washington s Special Education Safety Net written by Edith W. Harding and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rethinking special education written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce. Subcommittee on Education Reform and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The New Accountability written by Martin Carnoy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it comes to the issue of US education reform, hopeful politicians, liberal and conservative alike, have long touted the promises of 'standards-based accountability'. But do accountability-based reforms actually work? What happens when they encounter the formidable challenge of the comprehensive high school?The New Accountability explores the current wave of assessment-based accountability reforms at the high school level in the United States.
Download or read book Inclusion Works written by Faye Ong and published by Hippocrene Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Business of Education written by Joel Spring and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Business of Education—a comprehensive view of how education policy is made in the US and, in some cases, globally—analyzes and critiques the influence of educational policy networks in a wide range of contexts and from a variety of perspectives, including testing, college preparation, juvenile detention centers, special education, the arts, teacher evaluation systems, education of undocumented immigrants, college faculty preparation, and financial aid. A network chart in most chapters illustrates how the major political actors, mainly private philanthropic foundations, for-profit companies, government officials, and politicians involved in the network, are linked. Joel Spring, internationally renowned scholar and analyst of educational policy, situates and frames the network studies in an introduction discussing general theories of education policy networks.
