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Comprehensive Overview of Resources for Blindness and Special Education Statistics

This resource compilation offers valuable insights and statistics on blindness, special education, and the status of working-age adults with sensory disabilities. It includes links to key reports, studies, and data sources such as the National Longitudinal Transition Study-2 and the Special Education Elementary Longitudinal Study. Emphasizing the importance of understanding how data is sourced and interpreted, this compilation provides educators and researchers with essential information for grant writing and program development in the field of special education.

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Comprehensive Overview of Resources for Blindness and Special Education Statistics

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  1. Data Sources AER Division 17 Grant Writing Workshop March 22, 2007

  2. Division 17 Graduate and Enrollment Survey http://nclid.unco.edu/newnclid/gradSurvey.php

  3. All Personnel Types

  4. Teacher Candidates

  5. New Completers

  6. American Printing House for the Blind Federal Registry (by grade level and reading medium) http://www.aph.org/advisory/index.html

  7. American Printing House for the Blind Federal registry (by state and agency) http://www.aph.org/about/index.html

  8. www.ideadata.org www.ideadata.org

  9. 26th Annual Report to Congress http://www.ed.gov/about/reports/annual/osep/2004/index.html

  10. Special Education Elementary Longitudinal Study www.seels.net

  11. National Longitudinal Transition Study-2 www.nlts2.org

  12. NLTS-2 Data Summary(compiled by Amy Freeland) http://www.afb.org/Section.asp?SectionID=43&DocumentID=3178

  13. National Early Intervention Longitudinal Study http://www.sri.com/neils/

  14. FedStats http://www.fedstats.gov/

  15. International http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs282/en/

  16. Disability Statistics at Cornell University http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/edi/disabilitystatistics/index.cfm?n=1 Or . . .

  17. The Social and Economic Status of Working-Age Adults with Sensory Disabilities(compiled by Shawn Barnard) http://www.afb.org/Section.asp?SectionID=43&DocumentID=3173

  18. Census Bureau www.census.gov

  19. Estimates of Severely Visually Impaired Children http://www.afb.org/Section.asp?SectionID=43&DocumentID=3350

  20. AFB’s Blindness Statistics http://www.afb.org/Section.asp?SectionID=15

  21. New York Lighthouse http://www.visionconnection.org/Content/Research/EpidemiologyandStatistics/default.htm

  22. Other Sources • SPeNSE, Study of Personnel Needs in Special Education • http://ferdig.coe.ufl.edu/spense/ • Center for Special Education Finance • http://www.csef-air.org/ • National Center on Low-Incidence Disabilities • http://nclid.unco.edu/outcomes/

  23. The primary question is not what you know, but how you know it. (Aristotle)

  24. Caveats • All statistics are not equal • Qualify and explain data sources whenever possible • OSEP figures underestimate numbers of children served by personnel in blindness and low vision

  25. Caveats, continued • Try not to overwhelm the readers – • Select what is pertinent to the argument • Remember what Mark Twain said . . .

  26. Mark Twain Reminds Us . . . “There are three types of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.”

  27. http://nclid.unco.edu/Presentations/Ferrell/Data Kay Alicyn Ferrell, Ph.D. Associate Director, Policy Research kferrell@afb.net

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