{"id":2823,"date":"2010-05-03T11:02:48","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T15:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=2823"},"modified":"2016-04-15T12:14:45","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T16:14:45","slug":"special-education-not-the-resource-room-the-classroom-in-the-trailer-or-the-special-school-across-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/special-education-not-the-resource-room-the-classroom-in-the-trailer-or-the-special-school-across-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Education: NOT the Resource Room, the Classroom in the Trailer, or the Special School Across Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_pop\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/gallery\/share-button-gray.png\" style=\"border:0px\" alt=\"Share\" \/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_icon_type = \"labels\";var hupso_background=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_border=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"wrightslaw\";var hupso_url=\"\";var hupso_title=\"Special%20Education%3A%20NOT%20the%20Resource%20Room%2C%20the%20Classroom%20in%20the%20Trailer%2C%20or%20the%20Special%20School%20Across%20Town\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><blockquote><p>Does my daughter, who has an IEP, have to be served by resource classes or can she be totally in mainstream classrooms?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 5px 10px; float: left;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/images\/bs\/classroom.trailer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" \/>&#8220;Special education&#8221; under IDEA is not a place or placement or a pre-packaged program. <strong>Special education is a &#8220;service for children rather than a place where such children are sent.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Special education is not the resource room, the classroom in the trailer, or the special school across town.<\/p>\n<p>The IDEA includes a &#8220;least restrictive environment&#8221; (LRE) requirement.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>LRE Requirement in IDEA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Special education services should be delivered in regular education classes (not special classes, separate schooling, or other removal from the regular ed environment) except \u201cwhen the nature or severity of the disability of the child is such that education in regular classes with the use of supplementary aids and services cannot be achieved satisfactorily.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>20 U. S. C. \u00a7 1412(a)(5) &#8211; See page 72 in Wrightslaw: Special Education Law or Chapter 10 &#8211; Placement in Wrightslaw: All About IEPs.<\/p>\n<p>If the IEP of a student with a disability can be implemented satisfactorily with the provision of supplementary aids and services in the regular classroom in the school the student would attend if not disabled, that placement is the LRE placement for that student.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The &#8220;I&#8221; in IEP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>When school personnel view special education as a \u201cplace,\u201d they often fail to evaluate the child\u2019s unique needs and how the school can meet these needs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the &#8220;I&#8221; in IEP. &#8220;What we have available&#8221; usually refers to one-size-fits-all programs that are not individualized to meet a child&#8217;s unique needs.<\/p>\n<p>And remember, parents are members of any team that develops the IEP and decides on placement. IDEA Section 1414(e) requires that the school \u201c\u2026ensure that the parents of each child with a disability are members of any group that makes decision on the educational placement of their child.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=394\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Parent Involvement in Placement Decisions<\/span><\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=394\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=394<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/info\/lre.index.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Inclusion, LRE, and Mainstreaming<\/span><\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/info\/lre.index.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/info\/lre.index.htm<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does my daughter, who has an IEP, have to be served by resource classes or can she be totally in mainstream classrooms? &#8220;Special education&#8221; under IDEA is not a place <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/special-education-not-the-resource-room-the-classroom-in-the-trailer-or-the-special-school-across-town\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,1373,122],"tags":[575,1333,573,1318,574,1317,119],"class_list":["post-2823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fape","category-lre-inclusion","category-placement","tag-continuum-of-placement","tag-inclusion","tag-least-restrictive-environment","tag-lre","tag-mainstream","tag-placement","tag-resource-room"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2823"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15983,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823\/revisions\/15983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}