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The equity initiative: building a “solutions menu”: effective interventions for children with disabilities

Tue, April 16, 5:00 to 6:30pm, Hyatt Regency, Floor: Street (Level 0), Regency A

Group Submission Type: Formal Panel Session

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The Education Equity Research Initiative is a collaborative partnership that connects organizations and individuals committed to building stronger evidence and knowledge for improving solutions for equity in and through education. It serves to help ensure that an equity lens is incorporated into data production and research across all education and development programs and policies. With more than two dozen organizations participating in its work streams and task teams, The Equity Initiative is a vital forum for bringing collective knowledge and expertise together to address the challenge of equity. The organizations in this panel are contributing to building the knowledge base and advancing the field in understanding inequities in education outcomes and developing evidence-based solutions to address them. Learn more at www.educationequity2030.org.
Under the Education Equity Research Initiative, the Disability Task Team was established in 2017 with the objective of improving the availability and quality of data on the prevalence, access and achievement of children with disabilities in education. According to the World Report on Disability (WHO and World Bank, 2011) there are approximately 1 billion people recognized as disabled across the globe, representing approximately 15% of the world’s population. At a time of increasing attention to the scope of educational needs for this group, information gaps remain in terms of proven approaches for effectively education children with disabilities. In a recent analysis by Hayes, Turnbull, and Moran (2018) in USAID’s new toolkit entitled “Universal Design for Learning to Help all Children Read,” an extensive review of more than 500 articles, books, and other documents was undertaken. In the process of this review, a mere 2% of publications regarding inclusive or special education in Africa were focused on instructional approaches; in articles pertaining to Asia, only 3% discussed this topic. The vast majority of studies focused on either providing general information or discussing teacher attitudes towards inclusion.
Our four papers share promising practices and innovations in addressing these gaps. Our first paper reports on the outcomes of a quasi-experimental study on literacy and numeracy attainment for girls with disabilities in Kenya; our second paper lessons learned from All Children Reading projects supporting children who have low vision or are blind; our third paper presents the results from a project in Malawi that trained early childhood caregivers on supporting children with disabilities; and our fourth paper explores successful technologies for improving reading skills of children with disabilities.

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