Inclusion Rates Lagging for Students with Intellectual Disabilities
May 15, 2018
By: Shaun Heasley
Source: Disability Scoop
Under federal law, students with disabilities are supposed to attend class with their typically-developing peers as much as possible, but new research suggests that may not be happening.
In what researchers say is the first study to look at national trends in school placement for students with intellectual disabilities over the last four decades, they found that the majority of these children spent most or all of their time in self-contained settings.
What’s more, while inclusion rates rose during some periods in the nearly-40-year span, progress seems to have halted in recent years, according to findings that are set to be published in the American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.