Extent of Nonparticipation The IEP must also include an explanation of the extent, if any, to which the child will not participate
with nondisabled children in the regular class and in other school settings and activities.
an explanation of the extent, if any, to which the student will not participate
with nondisabled children in the regular education environment;
Not exact matches
The current system of procedural accountability within special education law is a logical response to the problems that led Congress in 1975 to enact the Education for All Handicapped
Children Act (now known as the Individuals
with Disabilities Education Act, or IDEA): the total exclusion of some students
with disabilities, the inadequate education of others, and the segregation of those in school from their
nondisabled peers.
Ableism, «the devaluation of disability,» can «result in societal attitudes that uncritically assert that it is better for a
child to walk than roll, speak than sign, read print than read Braille, spell independently than use a spell - check, and hang out
with nondisabled kids as opposed to other disabled kids.»
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Children with disabilities must be educated
with their
nondisabled peers, to the maximum extent appropriate.
At the time, an estimated one million
children with disabilities were excluded from public schools and were thus separate from their
nondisabled peers.
An abelist perspective asserts that it is preferable for a
child to read print rather than Braille, walk rather than use a wheelchair, spell independently rather than use a spell - checker, read written text rather than listen to a book on tape, and be friends
with nondisabled kids rather than
with other disabled kids.
Sibling relationships of
children with disabled and
nondisabled brothers and sisters.