Inclusion Matters to Everyone!
From Jim Comstock-Galagan – If you want people to understand the matter of inclusion, you make them understand it for themselves. How would inclusion relate to them? Jim understood when Continue Reading →
Category Archives: LRE / Inclusion
The Negative Effects of Separating Children with Disabilities
Inclusion: What does the research say? There is a strong research base to support the education of children with disabilities alongside their non-disabled peers. Although separate classes, with lower student Continue Reading →
Art & Music for Students with Disabilities – “They Just DON’T GET TO GO!”
I am an ESE teacher of students with autism in a self-contained class. The majority of my students are not allowed to go to art and music unless they can Continue Reading →
Child is Disrupting My Class – What Can I Do?
I am a general education teacher. One of my students, who has an IEP, interrupts class several times a day. It is not uncommon for him to blurt out on- Continue Reading →
Special Education: NOT the Resource Room, the Classroom in the Trailer, or the Special School Across Town
Does my daughter, who has an IEP, have to be served by resource classes or can she be totally in mainstream classrooms? “Special education” under IDEA is not a place Continue Reading →
Is There a Legal Definition of Self Contained Classroom?
I am a special education teacher. I have some concerns and questions about how students are receiving the mandated special ed services. 1. Is there a legal definition of self-contained Continue Reading →
Parent Involvement in Placement Decisions
My child attends school ‘out of district’ because our district had no program for a multiple needs-high needs student. He has one year left of school (age 20). Now the Continue Reading →
