{"id":3933,"date":"2011-04-24T10:00:06","date_gmt":"2011-04-24T14:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=3933"},"modified":"2011-03-24T16:50:21","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T20:50:21","slug":"are-we-warehousing-students-for-social-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/are-we-warehousing-students-for-social-reasons\/","title":{"rendered":"Are We Warehousing Students for Social Reasons?"},"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=\"Are%20We%20Warehousing%20Students%20for%20Social%20Reasons%3F\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><blockquote><p>I see the social aspect of inclusion as the priority over the educational aspect.\u00a0 I have concerns about the inclusion &#8220;movement&#8221; disallowing for appropriate services, i.e. cognitively delayed students who would not be receiving remediation if placed in a regular classroom setting.<\/p>\n<p>I am concerned that we are no longer addressing the student&#8217;s unique needs and are &#8220;warehousing&#8221; them for social reasons.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I do not see inclusion as a movement.\u00a0 It is a word that is not in the statute.<!--more--> For a better understanding, read the actual definition of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/advoc\/articles\/idea.lre.fape.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)<\/span><\/a> in the statute.\u00a0\u00a0 For more depth, see the federal regulations.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll find 20 U.S.C. \u00a7 1412(a)(5) in your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/bks\/selaw2\/selaw2.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">law book<\/span><\/a> on p. 72 and 34 CFR \u00a7 300.114 on p. 207.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While the Act and regulations recognize that IEP teams must make individualized decisions about the special education &#8230; IDEA\u2019s strong preference that, to the maximum extent appropriate, children with disabilities be educated in regular classes with their nondisabled peers with appropriate supplementary aids and services.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">LRE Varies for Each Child<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Least restrictive environment will vary from one child to the next.  LRE may even vary with the same child, over a span of time.<\/p>\n<p>1. For some children, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/law\/caselaw\/carter.links.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Shannon Carter<\/span><\/a>, the least restrictive environment was a private residential school of LD\/dyslexic children who were taught basic reading, writing, arithmetic, and spelling skills in a highly segregated restrictive setting.<\/p>\n<p>2. For other children, the least restrictive may be a regular education program with supports, services, aides, etc.<\/p>\n<p>3. And for other children, especially with autism, it can be both.\u00a0 Some of these children need very intense, one on one, ABA Lovaas type therapy 40 hours a week.<\/p>\n<p>Usually after approximately two years of such therapy, they can make a gradual transition into regular public school programs with an aide, also known as a &#8220;shadow&#8221; who is well versed in ABA principles.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps eventually, they will move out of special education and be supported fully in a regular education environment, with no special education required.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacer.org\/parent\/php\/php-c7.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">A Simplified Guide to Key Legal Requirements of LRE<\/span><\/a> in this Pacer Center information sheet.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacer.org\/parent\/php\/php-c7.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">http:\/\/www.pacer.org\/parent\/php\/php-c7.pdf<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I see the social aspect of inclusion as the priority over the educational aspect.\u00a0 I have concerns about the inclusion &#8220;movement&#8221; disallowing for appropriate services, i.e. cognitively delayed students who <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/are-we-warehousing-students-for-social-reasons\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"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":[1373],"tags":[1309,1333,1318,594],"class_list":["post-3933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lre-inclusion","tag-fape","tag-inclusion","tag-lre","tag-mainstreaming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3933","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3933"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4826,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3933\/revisions\/4826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}