Author ORCID Identifier
0000-0002-8767-2576
Abstract
This provocation is a journaling exercise to uncover the author’s experiences of navigating child find, a process to identify specific learning disability needs for my oldest child. While the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act provides provisions to protect and support children with special needs, private schools do not operate equally. When considering how these inequities in the educational system overlap with precollege engineering education, there is a large gap the literature, positioning a dire need to move disability studies into the precollege engineering education space. The critical authoethnographic journal sheds light on the inequities and educational gaps that are present in precollege to college engineering education. This provocation piece concludes with an introspective and critical
Recommended Citation
Villanueva Alarcon, I.
(2024).
The Dim Prospects of a Child Find: Journal Entries of an Academic, Engineer, and Mother Navigating Special Education Services.
Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research (J-PEER), 14(1), Article 5.
https://doi.org/10.7771/2157-9288.1410
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