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LEAST RESTRICTIVE ENVIRONMENT (LRE). Component of IDEADefinition = educational setting closest to that of nondisabled children that also meets the educational needs of the child with disabilitiesIncludes ?continuum of services". Continuum of services. Regular education classroom
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1. LRE, MAINSTREAMING AND INCLUSION - WHATS THE
DIFFERENCE ?
2. LEAST RESTRICTIVE ENVIRONMENT (LRE)
Component of IDEA
Definition = educational setting closest to that of nondisabled children that also meets the educational needs of the child with disabilities
Includes continuum of services
3. Continuum of services Regular education classroom
Regular class with supports
RSP
SDC
Special school
Home, hospital, residential
4. Questions to ask in determining LRE
Educational benefits?
Non-educational benefits?
Effect on other students and teacher?
Costs of supplemental services?
5. MAINSTREAMING Definition = participation of children with disabilities in regular education classrooms as appropriate
Originally for non-academic activities
Visiting general ed
Teachers unprepared to implement effectively
6. The move fromMainstreaming to Inclusion
Madeline Will and the REI (1986)
excluding
stigmatizing
withholding
not cooperating
not adapting
Time for a change!
7. INCLUSION Definition = education of children with disabilities in regular education classrooms with support services provided as necessary
Includes academics
Members of the class
Need for collaboration
8. Components to Inclusion
Home-school placement
Age and grade appropriateness
Supports in regular classroom
9. Challenges to Inclusion Time
Training
Tutors
Things
Twenty students
Teaching mission
10. INCLUSION WHAT DOES THE RESEARCH SAY?
Academics
Social cognition
Self-concept
Friendships
Cost
Employment
http://www.weac.org/resource/june96/speced.htm
11. LRE, MAINSTREAMING OR INCLUSION WHATS THE SAME? Special education is a service
for children rather than a place
they are sent.