LRE, MAINSTREAMING AND INCLUSION -

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LRE, MAINSTREAMING AND INCLUSION -

• WHATS THE
• DIFFERENCE ?

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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

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Continuum of services

• Regular education classroom
• Regular class with supports
• RSP
• SDC
• Special school
• Home, hospital, residential

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Questions to ask in determining LRE

• Educational benefits?
• Non-educational benefits?
• Effect on other students and teacher?
• Costs of supplemental services?

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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

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The move fromMainstreaming to
Inclusion

• Madeline Will and the REI (1986)
• excluding
• stigmatizing
• withholding
• not cooperating
• not adapting
• Time for a change!

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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

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Components to Inclusion

• Home-school placement
• Age and grade appropriateness
• Supports in regular classroom

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Challenges to Inclusion

• Time
• Training
• Tutors
• Things
• Twenty students
• Teaching mission

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INCLUSION

• WHAT DOES THE RESEARCH SAY?
• Academics
• Social cognition
• Self-concept
• Friendships
• Cost
• Employment
• http//www.weac.org/resource/june96/speced.htm

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LRE, MAINSTREAMING OR INCLUSION WHATS THE
SAME?

• Special education is a service
• for children rather than a place
• they are sent.