Predicting needs for special education resources for mental retardation from birth defects records. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Planning of service delivery systems for children with special health care needs would be enhanced by knowledge of numbers of cases anticipated in defined geographic areas. A method is described for predicting numbers of children who will likely have mental retardation sufficient to require special education services, based on the birth prevalence of birth defects and clinicians' estimates of the likelihood of mental retardation associated with each specific birth defect. This method is applied to the 1980-82 birth cohort of a 28-county area of south and central Arkansas, and it is compared with special education enrollment data for children ages 6 to 8 in academic year 1988-89. According to this estimate, children with birth defects may account for 32 to 56 percent of the cases of mental retardation among 6- to 8-year-olds reported by the public schools.

publication date

  • May 1, 1992

Research

keywords

  • Congenital Abnormalities
  • Education, Special
  • Intellectual Disability

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC1403649

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0026709098

PubMed ID

  • 1594739

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 107

issue

  • 3