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Are Disabilities Declining?

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Are Disabilities Declining?

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Are Disabilities Declining? Saturday September 11, 2010 #spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3) September 8 Education Week reported that over the past 5 years the percentage of children diagnosed with disabilities has declined each year. According the the US Department of Education’s Institutes of Education Sciences, the percentage of children dropped from a high of 13.8 percent of students in 2004-2005 to 13.4 percent of students in 2007-2008. Although the decline in diagnoses seems to be small, experts still look at it as being significant. The committee is definitely out when it comes to what the decline means. One important question is whether we are really all that good at diagnosing disabilities, especially specific learning disabilities, whi