{"id":8333,"date":"2012-10-18T10:00:10","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T14:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=8333"},"modified":"2012-10-04T16:04:31","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T20:04:31","slug":"why-wont-the-school-provide-homebound-instruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/why-wont-the-school-provide-homebound-instruction\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Won&#8217;t the School Provide Homebound Instruction?"},"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=\"Why%20Won%27t%20the%20School%20Provide%20Homebound%20Instruction%3F\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/nltr\/img\/mother.son.help.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>My child\u2019s doctor recommended homebound instruction. The school said they had the authority to override that recommendation. Why won&#8217;t the school provide homebound services?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Issues of homebound are determined in part by state law and state regulations, if any, on the subject.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IDEA 2004 and the federal regulations provide no guidance on this issue.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>However, if your child has an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/info\/iep.index.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">IEP<\/span><\/a>, the IEP controls the services, regardless of where they are delivered \u2013 at home or in the public school.<\/p>\n<p>The IEP team determines what the child requires in order to receive FAPE, i.e., a free appropriate public education.<\/p>\n<p>Placing a child on<strong> homebound is a very restrictive placement<\/strong>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As a general rule, a homebound placement is only appropriate if a child has a health or medical problem that prevents the child from attending school.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Homebound Placement for Behavior Issues<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We are seeing many cases where the school\/IEP team places a child with behavior problems in \u201chomebound\u201d for weeks or months because they don\u2019t know how to handle the child\u2019s behavior.<\/p>\n<p>In a nutshell, the school removes the child from school. The child may receive a couple of hours of instruction a week and no contact with other kids.<\/p>\n<p>In these instances, the school needs to do a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/info\/discipl.fab.starin.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA)<\/span><\/a> and design a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/info\/bip.ciolfi.reichhardt.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Behavior Intervention Plan (BIP)<\/span><\/a> as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Documentation:<\/strong> The parent who has documented the problems and their attempts to solve them, will be in a stronger position to request an IEP team meeting and an IEP that addresses the problem behaviors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Homebound Services for Medical Issues<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If a child has a medical condition that requires homebound instruction, the doctor needs to document this in detail.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>what is the condition?<\/li>\n<li>what will the child need?<\/li>\n<li>how long will the child need this service?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Documentation:<\/strong> The parent needs to document the child\u2019s problems, what caused them to worsen, attempts made to help the child, etc.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My child\u2019s doctor recommended homebound instruction. The school said they had the authority to override that recommendation. Why won&#8217;t the school provide homebound services? Issues of homebound are determined in <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/why-wont-the-school-provide-homebound-instruction\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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":[57,18,64],"tags":[1309,505,130,1299],"class_list":["post-8333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fape","category-ieps","category-special-education-regulations","tag-fape","tag-homebound-instruction","tag-homebound-services","tag-ieps"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8333","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8333"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8600,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8333\/revisions\/8600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}