{"id":261,"date":"2010-09-14T10:31:28","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T15:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/udl\/?p=261"},"modified":"2010-09-14T10:37:12","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T15:37:12","slug":"261","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/udl\/2010\/09\/14\/261\/","title":{"rendered":"Trends in Disability Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Learning-Disabled Enrollment<\/h1>\n<h1>Dips After Long Climb<\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_262\" style=\"width: 253px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/udl\/files\/2010\/09\/03speced-c1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-262\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-262\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/udl\/files\/2010\/09\/03speced-c1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Students Served Chart\" width=\"243\" height=\"243\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-262\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Percentage of Students Served (click enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After decades of what seemed to be an inexorable upward path, the  number of students classified as learning-disabled declined from year to  year over much of the past decade\u2014a change in direction that is  spurring debates among experts about the reasons why.<\/p>\n<p>The percentage of 3- to 21-year-old students nationwide classified  as having a \u201cspecific learning disability\u201d dropped steadily from 6.1  percent in the 2000-01 school year to 5.2 percent in 2007-08, <a href=\"http:\/\/nces.ed.gov\/programs\/digest\/d09\/tables\/dt09_050.asp?referrer=list\">according to the most recent data available<\/a>,  which come from the U.S Department of Education\u2019s 2009 Digest of  Education Statistics. In numbers, that\u2019s a drop from about 2.9 million  to 2.6 million students.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Positive Trends (<\/strong><em>Article Excerpt)<\/em> &#8211; About 80 percent of children who are classified as learning-disabled get the label because they\u2019re struggling to read<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edweek.org\/ew\/articles\/2010\/09\/08\/03speced_ep.h30.html?tkn=XVUFtPNGfTTfQX%2BELhJ5ID%2F88Rvvk7QYc2fU&amp;intc=es\">To Read More Go to Edweek.org website. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disability Trends <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/udl\/2010\/09\/14\/261\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[453,446],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessibility","category-discussion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/udl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/udl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/udl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/udl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/udl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/udl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/udl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/udl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/udl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/udl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}