2020 Advocacy Psychology 
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 9, 2023
According to the most recent data from 2020-21 school year, two thirds of the 7 million students with disabilities who receive special education services spent 80 percent or more of their time in traditional classrooms. Overall, students didn’t benefit academically, psychologically or socially from the practice.
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 26, 2023
Yet, nationwide, there was just one school psychologist for every 1,127 K-12 students in 2020-21, a ratio well below the 500 students to one psychologist recommended by the National Association of School Psychologists. The shortages of school social workers and counselors are just as bad. But it kept pulling me back.”
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The Hechinger Report
JUNE 5, 2024
It’s designed for neurodivergent students or those who want to work in fields such as social work, special education or psychology. In 2020, an estimated 1 in 36 eight-year-olds had an autism spectrum disorder diagnosis. Some experts argue that the rise is the result of overdiagnosis.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 22, 2022
Keygan Miller, advocacy manager at The Trevor Project, a nonprofit focused on suicide prevention for LGBTQ+ youth, said that a therapist doesn’t have to identify as queer or trans to help a student who does. Reyna Smith, a doctoral candidate in psychology at the University of the Cumberlands in Kentucky.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 29, 2021
In the spring of 2020, Chelsea Kelley’s second grader received live instruction from his teacher just once a week for 45 minutes. Tanya Lieberman, pictured in May 2020, had to figure out how to hold public hearings on proposed legislation during a pandemic. Credit: Tanya Lieberman. Here’s what teachers are doing about it.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 1, 2022
Finally, in early 2020, Busby found a provider in Amherst, less than an hour away, who would accept payment only modestly above the state rate. In late September 2020, the Amherst center still had not resumed bringing in patients. Sometimes districts put up hurdles to that effort — whether by accident or intent.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 18, 2020
Eli’s mom, Alice Stuart, contacted the school in January 2020 to launch the process to formally evaluate her child for dyslexia and dyscalculia, a math disability. Not all districts have complied, said Dustin Rynders, a supervising attorney with the advocacy group Disability Rights Texas. “In
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