Children with Disabilities Tend to Stay in a Highly-resourced Early Head Start/Head Start Program Longer than Children without Disabilities

Authors

Alan Cobo-Lewis, University of Maine - Main
Dale Walker, University of Kansas
Noreen Yazejian, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Shinyoung Jeon, University of Oklahoma–Tulsa
Sandra Hone, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Karen Stoiber, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Diane Horm, University of Oklahoma–Tulsa
Gabriela Guerrero, University of Kansas
Donna Bryant, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Description

Using data from 21 Educare schools, the researchers measured the rate at which children from birth to kindergarten-age enter the school and rate at which they exit the school. Educare schools are highly resourced Early Head Start/Head Start programs targeting children at risk, especially children from low-income backgrounds. About 10% of the children have a disability. Results showed that children with a disability tended to stay in the program longer, especially when enrolled in Early Head Start.

Publication Date

11-2019

Document Type

Poster

Publisher

University of Maine Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies

City

Orono

Conference Name

2019 Association of University Centers on Developmental Disabilities (AUCD)

Conference Location

Washington, DC

Keywords

Early Head Start, Head Start, children with disabilities

Disciplines

Early Childhood Education | Pre-Elementary, Early Childhood, Kindergarten Teacher Education

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Recommended Citation

Cobo-Lewis, A., Walker, D., Yazejian, N., Jeon, S., Hong,S., Stoiber, K., Horm, D., Guerrero, G., & Bryant, D. (2019, November). Children with Disabilities Tend to Stay in a Highly-Resourced Early Head Start/Head Start Program Longer than Children Without Disabilities (PDF). Poster session presented at the 2019 Association of University Centers on Developmental Disabilities (AUCD), Washington, DC.