Author: Sonya Herron, Stephen Bacak, and others
Source: Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Volume 157, page 104, January 2003
This study, from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, looked at how well a group of students with sickle cell anemia did in school and what services they were offered. They looked at the school records of 39 students who either had a stroke in the past or were hospitalized for pain 3 or more times in the last year. Students who had a stroke in the past missed an average of 15.5 school days and children who had frequent hospitalizations for pain missed an average of 38 school days during the school year. More than a quarter of all children had been retained (held back) at least 1 grade. Of the children who were between the ages of 14 and 18, only 1 out of three had graduated from high school or were scheduled to graduate in the next 4 years. Despite this, less than half of these students had been evaluated for or had an Individual Education Plan (IEP), and none was scheduled to complete a vocational training program
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