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Disability types and children's schooling in Africa
Zhang, Huafeng; Holden, Stein Terje - 2022
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set up by the United Nations include an overarching principle of “leaving no one behind” and aim for, among other goals, equal access to education for children with disabilities. Our study contributes to the knowledge on the school enrolment of...
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Early academic outcomes of funded children with disability
Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Polidano, Cain; Ryan, Chris - 2017
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Disability and school attendance in 15 low- and middle-income countries
Mizunoya, Suguru; Mitra, Sophie; Yamasaki, Izumi - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 104 (2018), pp. 388-403
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Numeracy skills learning of children in Africa : are disabled children lagging behind?
Zhang, Huafeng; Holden, Stein Terje - 2022
Significant progress has been achieved in universal basic education in African countries since the late 1990s. This study provides empirical evidence on the within- and across-country variation in numeracy skills performance among children based on nationally representative data from eight...
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Educating children with disabilities : comparative evidence from Ethiopia, Burkina Faso and Niger
Hang’andu, Privilege; Mensah, Emmanuel Kodwo; … - 2023
Education is a fundamental human right and it is a global Sustainable Development Goal to “ensure inclusive and equitable quality education for all.” Many children with disabilities in low-income countries, however, continue to be excluded from educational opportunities at great cost to...
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The effect of expanding Medicaid eligibility on Supplemental Security Income program participation
Burns, Marguerite; Dague, Laura - 2016
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Support for the social participation of children and young people with disability in China : a Jiangxi county case study
Fisher, Karen R.; Shang, Xiaoyuan; Xie, Jiawen - In: China's changing welfare mix : local perspectives, (pp. 193-210). 2011
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Children with disabilities
2013
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Early Academic Outcomes of Funded Children with Disability
Haisken-DeNew, John P. - 2017
poor schooling outcomes. To enable students with disability to meet their potential, the governments provide extra funding … mainstream public-school students with disability who are in the bottom quarter of the state developmentally receive ongoing … control for differences between students with disability who do and do not receive targeted funding, we find that the receipt …
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Supplemental Security Income for Children with Disabilities
Fremstad, Shawn - 2014
About 8 to 9 percent of children in the United States have a relatively serious disability. Families caring for these children are more likely to experience various economic hardships than other families with children, even when their incomes are the same. Recent research finds that costs...
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