Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  The data collected with the child functioning model provides two things. One is information on difficulties that children are experiencing in certain domains of functioning, whether that's seeing, hearing, mobility, fine motor skills, learning, playing, controlling emotions, anxiety or depression.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Yes. The more we harmonize the use of the same kinds of modules to identify children with disabilities, not only in our censuses, not only in our nationally representative surveys, but also in our programming.... When dollars are spent through programs, you have to attach the requirement that information collected during those programs will be collected in the same way.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good afternoon, subcommittee members. Thank you for inviting The Washington Group on Disability Statistics to today's meeting. I'm going to provide some background information about the Washington Group and the tools that have been developed to collect the information on disability, particularly for children.