http://www.weac.org/Issues_Advocacy/Resource_Pages_On_Issues_One/Special_Education/special_education_inclusion.aspx
This website has definitions of inclusions including, mainstreaming, inclusion, and full inclusion. It also what federal law requires of inclusion. It discusses IDEA and Section 504. It talks about court decisions providing guidelines governing placement under IDEA. It has recommendations and resources. Great website!
http://www.uni.edu/coe/inclusion/
This website provides information about legal requirements, teacher competencies, teaching strategies, decison-making, preparing for inclusion, and other issues. It also provides a great amount of resources.
http://www.disabilityrightsca.org/PUBS/504701.htm
This website provides a vast amount of information on LRE. Here is a list of some of the topics that it covers.
Information on Basic Rights and Responsibilities
Information on Evaluations/Assessments
Information on Eligibility Criteria
Information on IEP Process
Information on Related Services
Information on Due Process Hearings/Compliance Complaints
Information on Least Restrictive Environment
Information on Discipline of Students with Disabilities
Information on Interagency Responsibility for Related Services (AB 3632/882)
Information on Vocational Education
Information on Preschool Education Services
Information on Early Intervention Services
Information on the Rights of Students with Serious Health Conditions to Appropriate Educational Services
This is a GREAT website!
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The IDEA includes two fundamental requirements: that the child will receive a free appropriate public education (FAPE) in the least restrictive environment (LRE).
ReplyDeleteThe least restrictive environment (LRE) requirement is often referred to as "mainstreaming." What does least restrictive environment mean? What is the purpose of the "mainstreaming policy"?
Under what circumstances can school districts place children with disabilities in separate special education programs where they are segregated from children who are not disabled?
I am still confuse about the terminologies between inclusion and LRE.I will try to read up some more about it. Please give me some highlight on this.