TY  - CHAP
AB  - In reviewing the special education professional literature using “disproportionality” as a descriptor, most of the articles addressed overrepresentation (Salend, Duhaney, & Montgomery, 2002). An Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) Digest was titled Reducing the Disproportionate Representation of Minority Students in Special Education (Burnette, 1998) yet it focused on “what can be done to reduce over-representation.” Apparently, underrepresentation/underserving students is not an issue of great importance. A recent article in one of special education's premiere journals, Exceptional Children, used the term disproportionality as synonymous with overrepresentation (Skiba et al., 2008). The article did not mention underrepresentation as part of the disproportionality puzzle. In the view of these authors, overrepresentation of minority students in special education is the only part of the disproportionality equation that merits consideration.
VL  - 19
SN  - 978-1-84855-669-0, 978-1-84855-668-3/0270-4013
DO  - 10.1108/S0270-4013(2010)0000019006
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0270-4013(2010)0000019006
AU  - Black Rhonda S.
ED  - Festus E. Obiakor
ED  - Jeffrey P. Bakken
ED  - Anthony F. Rotatori
PY  - 2010
Y1  - 2010/01/01
TI  - Chapter 3 Can underidentification affect exceptional learners?
T2  - Current Issues and Trends in Special Education: Identification, Assessment and Instruction
T3  - Advances in Special Education
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 37
EP  - 51
Y2  - 2024/04/20
ER  -