Winter's final brown bag seminar! Fri, March 4, 12-1pm, in MGH 024 (the UW D Center)
Speaker: Professor Sherrie Brown, College of Education and Disability Studies Program
Title: "Juvenile Justice and Youth With Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities: investigating Special Education in Washington State"
Date & place: Fri, March 4, 12-1pm, in MGH 024 (the UW D Center)
Accessibility:
We will have CART captioning and ASL interpretation.
The D Center is located in the basement of Mary Gates Hall, room 024. It’s wheelchair accessible.
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Abstract
There have always been school-aged children (youth) involved in the justice system—as victims or offenders—however, it is only recently that attention has been given to the fact that a disproportionate number have disabilities. Questions are being raised as how to improve interventions for at-risk children prior to any involvement with the justice system, what strategies can benefit youth while they are incarcerated, and how to minimize recidivism. We are a long way from answering these questions for non-disabled youth let alone those with disabilities. However, these and other questions specifically for the population of youth with disabilities must be investigated in order to ensure that youth are not being punished because of their impairments.
The University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD) at the University of Washington, the Washington State Developmental Disabilities Council (DDC), and Disability Rights Washington (DRW) have committed to a long-term collaboration focusing on youth with intellectual/developmental disabilities in the juvenile justice system. Specifically, we are investigating how youth with intellectual/developmental disabilities become involved in the system, how to prevent such involvement, and if youth are incarcerated, how to ensure appropriate interventions to maximize successful outcomes when they return to the community. This presentation describes one of the collaborative projects—i.e., a study that began in 2012 investigating the connection between special education and juvenile incarceration in Washington State.