“Six years after high school, students with disabilities are less likely to have gone on to postsecondary schools than their classmates without disabilities and less likely to be financially independent, but a little more likely to have children, according to a new report…” [Read more].
Source: Nirvi Shah, Education Week, September 13, 2011
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