High-Quality School-Based Pre-K Can Boost Early Learning for Children with Special Needs

Deborah A Phillips, Mary Elizabeth Meloy

2012-07-01articleExceptional Children82 citationsclosed

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Early Childhood Education and Development School Choice and Performance Collaborative Teaching and Inclusion

Abstract

This article assesses the effects of Tulsa, Oklahoma's school-based prekindergarten program on the school readiness of children with special needs using a regression discontinuity design. Participation in the pre-K program was associated with significant gains for children with special needs in early literacy scores, but not in math scores. These gains were not statistically different from those exhibited by their classmates without special needs. Findings are interpreted as indicating that high-quality state pre-K programs can serve as effective early intervention programs for children with special needs.

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