School Absences More Frequent for Kids with Disabilities
October 17, 2018
By: Shaun Heasley
Source: Disability Scoop
Children with developmental disabilities are far more likely to be missing a lot of school, according to a new federal report, with those who have certain conditions at especially high risk.
Among kids ages 5 to 17, those with at least one developmental disability face twice the odds of being deemed chronically absent, a label given to students who miss 15 or more days of school within a single year.
The likelihood of qualifying as chronically absent increased with the number of developmental disabilities a child had, the report found.