TY - JOUR
T1 - Wading through quicksand
T2 - Making sense of minority disproportionality in identification of emotional disturbance
AU - Sullivan, Amanda L.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Hammill Institute on Disabilities 2017.
Copyright:
Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - The debate surrounding disproportionality in the identification of culturally and linguistically diverse students for special education, and in the category of emotional disturbance in particular, remains highly contentious, particularly as scholars grapple with the meaning and causes of disproportionality. In this article, I discuss assumptions underpinning this line of scholarship and implications for the meaning we make of research findings related to disparities in special education and students’ needs. Efforts to understand and address inequity must be juxtaposed with the imprecise, and at times inscrutable, conceptual, psychometric, procedural, and causal issues surrounding identification and potential disproportionality, even while maintaining a fundamental desire to benefit students.
AB - The debate surrounding disproportionality in the identification of culturally and linguistically diverse students for special education, and in the category of emotional disturbance in particular, remains highly contentious, particularly as scholars grapple with the meaning and causes of disproportionality. In this article, I discuss assumptions underpinning this line of scholarship and implications for the meaning we make of research findings related to disparities in special education and students’ needs. Efforts to understand and address inequity must be juxtaposed with the imprecise, and at times inscrutable, conceptual, psychometric, procedural, and causal issues surrounding identification and potential disproportionality, even while maintaining a fundamental desire to benefit students.
KW - Disproportionality
KW - Emotional disturbance
KW - Special education
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U2 - 10.1177/0198742917732360
DO - 10.1177/0198742917732360
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85040143786
SN - 0198-7429
VL - 43
SP - 244
EP - 252
JO - Behavioral Disorders
JF - Behavioral Disorders
IS - 1
ER -