A Study of School Social Worker Involvement with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act in Georgia Public Schools, 2019
Woods, Kimberlee
2010-2019
This study explored the level of involvement of school social workers in the 504-Plan process as it relates to the administrative culture of school administrators, collaboration with school personnel, training on the 504-Plan process, and finally knowledge of Section 504. Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder affects over six-million children in the world today that may benefit from the use of a 504-Plan. A total of 147 school social workers participated in this study. A self-administered survey was used, and data analysis was conducted on two levels: descriptive which employed frequency and percent distributions of respondents and analytical procedures. The Kruskal-Wallis H test utilized for this study which indicated a statistically significant relationship which rejected the null hypotheses of all four research questions. A second test was then performed, Mann Whitney U test, to determine where the significance of the hypotheses lied. Findings revealed that overall there is a low level of involvement of school social workers in the 504-Plan process of 64.8%. Twenty-nine and a third percent reported a moderate level of involvement. There was a low to moderate level of administrative culture, moderate level of collaboration, training and knowledge among the school social workers. KEYWORDS: Civil Rights and Discrimination, Disability and Equity in Education, Disability Law, Disability Studies, Education Law, Social Work
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2019-05-20
dissertation
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Clark Atlanta University
Social Work
White, Gerry Wright, Darrin Jairrels, Veda
Clark Atlanta University Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
Georgia--Atlanta
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/cau.td:2019_woods_kimberlee