Individuals with disabilities have higher rates of unemployment even if their disabilities do not prevent them from working 

Disability Status (as a Characteristic of the Poor)

Persistent and significant gaps in academic performance and/or educational attainment between non-disabled and disabled students.

Disability Achievement Gap

- On average, students in all disability categories except speech impairments, emotional disturbances, and visual impairments performed significantly worse than students in the learning disabilities category.
- Students with disabilities showed a significantly slower rate of math growth
- The following disabilities groups showed significantly lower calculation scores than students with disabilities: intellectual disability, autism, traumatic brain injury, multiple disabilities
- Students with speech impairments showed significantly higher calculation scores than students with learning disabilities.

Disability Status and Math Growth Trajectory Results

Disability status refers to a person’s disabilities or lack thereof. A disability status refering to a lack of disabilities may include: able bodied, temporarily able bodied, neurotypical.

Disability Status

Disability Studies is an interdisciplinary field of study that examines the consequences and implications of disability as well as various issues that impact the disability community.

Disability Studies

Ensuring that all people have the ability to utilize a product, facility, or service, regardless of any disability they may have. Accessibility may include the modification of existing infrastructure, products, or services or designing them with disabled users in mind.

Accessibility

While not all disabilities can fit neatly into one category, these categories generally encapsulate the types of disabilities through the Impairment Dimension.

-	Cognitive / Intellectual 
-	Chronic Illnesses 
-	Developmental
-	Mental 
-	Physical / Sensory
-	Speech / Communication


Types of Disabilities

A disability is any impairment through which a person is hindered from full participation in society on an equal basis with those without the same impairment. 

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- Gender and Sexuality
- Social Class, Inequality, and Poverty
- Environment
- Marriage
- Effects on Early Education Programs in Disadvantaged Children 
- Disability
- Religion
- Family
- Culture
- Race and Ethnicity

Sociological Issues 

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Gender and Sexuality

These three topics are interrelated because a person's social class commonly impacts that person's inequality and poverty and vise versa, which can be seen in child nodes. 

Social Class, Inequality, and Poverty

Disability

Religions are collections of beliefs, practices, and meaningful places/items/people that provide an understanding of the supernatural, spirituality, and transcendence. 

Religion

A group of people connected through an emotional bond.

Family as a Sociological Issue

The holding of a viewpoint, favorable or unfavorable, about a idea, person, or group, that is unwarranted given available information

Bias

Marriage is a legal, social contract between two people who maintain a physical and emotional relationship. 

Marriage as a Sociological Issue

This issue focuses on how people impact their natural environment.

Environment as a Sociological Issue

A collection of human behaviors and social norms that connect a group of people. These norms can include shared art, law, and beliefs, as well as other mutual commonalities.

Culture as a Sociological Issue

The effectiveness of early education programs in promoting children's long-term success has been a significant topic of debate for policymakers and stakeholders deciding on funding allocation. Extensive scientific research has addressed this question, concluding that while program effectiveness can vary and short-term effects are often more pronounced, these programs are generally found to be effective and can produce significant long-term benefits for participants.

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