Common Interests Cement E.D.-H.H.S. Ties

By Mark Pitsch

Washington

Last September, when a draft of the Clinton Administration's health-care-reform bill was circulated, it implied that the plan would not include health services currently provided by a popular program for children with disabilities.

The Early Periodic Screenings, Diagnosis, and Treatment program, which has been funded under the Medicaid program since 1986, is seen by educators as a source of federal funds to help pay for the health needs of special-education students and an important vehicle for detecting health problems in such children at an early age. (See Education...

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