By Steven Ross Johnson, US News
Research released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a larger share of children with disabilities between 5 and 17 years of age experienced stressful life events such as neighborhood violence or parental incarceration compared to children without a disability.
The analysis of 2019 survey data offers valuable insight by quantitatively identifying disability status as a risk factor for experiencing an adverse event in childhood, which can have severe repercussions later in life.
"Studies like this really help set the agenda for what we need to be looking at to be able to better help our children with disabilities," says Dr. Dennis Kuo, immediate past chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics' Council for Children with Disabilities.
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