more thoughts generated by the public schools research

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In addition to looking at breakdowns by race and socioeconomic status, you can look at children with registered disabilities. I was just poking around and noticed that the rates (in the Athens-Clarke County GA school system as a whole) for white children who are autistic are almost exactly the same as for black children who are "emotionally or behaviorally disturbed," and that there are almost no white children who are emotionally or behaviorally disturbed and almost no black children who are autistic.

Differential diagnoses, anyone?