In the afternoon we looked at a video called "Misunderstood Minds". This film is about children with different learning disabilities. A video response post to "Misunderstood Minds" will follow.
Notes taken during the day
- Least Restrictive Environment => regular classroom. By law, each town and city must have in place a service plan so that any one of them can be included.
- Parents could be interested in having their child placed in a specialized environment but school could say no due to budgeting costs. Having kids placed is a major cost to school districts. Having schools take on inclusion is an economic idea to save money for school districts. More placements in-school have replaced out-of-school (private settings). Parents can resist the school’s plan. Can be handled with mediation. Parents have the right to accept or reject the plan.
- Page 8 – Influences on Current Special Education Practices – given economic times, the fact is that to support SPED is maybe in some people’s eyes undercutting support of other things. Who is going to support it? Fed or State govt? City or town? All of these are arguing there is not enough money to go around, and priorities. Daily occurrence in the US. By law, SPED has to be supported or funded. Maybe not to the level people would like. The more severe the disability, the more dollars the town/city will receive.
- IFSP
- Individual Family Service Plan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Consent - parents have the right to reject or to accept, to certain elements or everything in an IEP.
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