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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ve often looked at the gender breakdown of students with disabilities in our school. It’s about 3/4 boys. That number seems pretty lopsided given that disabilities typically affect both genders in equal numbers. The main difference is that girls often are not early identified because their behavior is often less disruptive than boys. One could argue that the lack of addressing the needs of girls with disabilities is discrimination due to disability and gender.

Definitely something MCPS should look into more and address. The numbers indicate a serious problem in schools.[/quote]

As a woman who had undiagnosed adhd +, and a parent of 2 children with adhd +, it's not the schools job to find students with disabilities.  The shocking disparity is the fault of the psychology industry,  not the schools.[/quote]

Federal laws include Section 504 and the IDEA puts the responsibility to identify students with disabilities and their needs on public schools that accept federal funding. There’s a wide discrepancy based on financial resources for parents to pay for private assessments.

As is, MCPS data shows boys are identified more than girls. That shows a probability of bias that impacts the child find process.[/quote]

Schools are not allowed to diagnose learning problems or disabilities.
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The words used above is identifying. They have staff to do the necessary assessments to identify students with disabilities and their needs. Identifying is written in the law. [/quote]

How do schools track how well theybdonat *identifying * students with disabilities? Is there standard screening, like there is with hearing and vision? Why not?[/quote]

MCPS has data that they internally review. I saw Phil Lynch review the data at a SEAC meeting before. When broken down by disabilities as compared to general population distribution, some disabilities were over identified in MCPS where others were underrepresented. One of the largest over identified was Autism. They have the ability to also analyze by gender.[/quote]

This was probably presented by people without a scientific research background.  There could be many reasons why ASD is seen at a higher rate in a certain location (like the average age of parents) beyond "over-identification."[/quote]

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