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• Title: Included Students with Autism and Access to General Curriculum: What is Being Provided? (Report)
• Author : Issues in Teacher Education
• Release Date : January 22, 2010
• Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 98 KB

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Autism has increased at an unprecedented rate in recent years. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (Centers for Disease Control [CDC], 2007) reported in a prevalence study of autism that one in 150 8-yearolds have been identified with the disorder. The 2005 U.S. Government Accountability Office (U.S. GAO, 2005) Report to the House of Representatives on Special Education reported a 500% increase in the number of students aged six to 21 identified with autism in the past 10 years. The U.S. GAO cited the following as possible reasons for the dramatic increase in autism rates: (a) improved diagnoses, (b) broader array of conditions falling within the range of autism, and (c) increased rates of autism in the general population. Despite what seems to be an alarming surge in rates of autism, some contend that what is really being witnessed is the result of category shifting. Shattuck (2006) examined longitudinal federal and state special education disability categories. This researcher determined that students who would have previously been identified with mental retardation, specific learning disability, or other health impairments were now categorized under autism. When more conditions were included in the category of autism, there were corresponding declines in the above listed disability categories. Regardless of the possibility of disability category substitution, elevated rates of autism impact every aspect of our society, especially the public educational system.

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