Identification Age and Early Intervention Provision for Children With Disabilities Across Urbanicity

• In Event: 33.080 - Poster Session 6
  In Poster Session: 33.080-8 - Special Education Research SIG: Assessment, Collaboration, and Educational Placement

Abstract

Age of identification with special needs has predictability according to the disability type; however, this study looks at whether there are also differences in age of identification and provision of early intervention services based on the urbanicity of the child. Using data from SEELS , a large national survey of children with special needs, this study considers delivery rates of early intervention services provided by age 5 to children from rural, suburban, and urban areas identified as having special needs. The core finding indicates a smaller percentage of rural children received early intervention services compared to their suburban or urban peers.

Author

• Laura Warfield Lagomarsino, Notre Dame of Maryland University