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The identification of homeless school children
Abstract
Experience, buttressed by a school survey, attested to the presence of homeless children in our schools. These children evince special needs which demand attention, or we may suffer their loss from the school systems, and pay a staggering social cost, later. The problem is that their special needs cannot be met if these children are not identified as homeless, and rarely do they self-identify. The dissertation develops a screening test for the identification of the homeless children in our schools in order to treat their special needs. After a pre-test survey, the test was piloted at an inner-city school, refined, and administered as circumstances suggested. The results confirmed the existence of homeless children with special needs in the schools. An increased ability to identify these children, coupled with enhanced teacher training and curriculum development, can help retain and treat these children within the educational process--and, it is hoped, avoid the social cost.
Subject Area
School counseling|Educational sociology|Public policy
Recommended Citation
Radford, Richard Francis, "The identification of homeless school children" (1992). Doctoral Dissertations Available from Proquest. AAI9233136.
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9233136