Continuum of Services
Criteria for Determining Placement
Appropriate Placements
Definitions
100

Day School, residential facility.

What is the most restrictive environment.?

100
Schools must provide parents with _____ written notice about the placement decision in reasonable time before it implements that decision.
What is prior?
100
Budgetary factors, type of severity of the disability, past school programs, administrative conveniences, and teachers attitudes
What are things that should not be considered when making a placement?
100
Neither federal or state law uses this term.
What is inclusion?
200

A range of educational placements in which an IEP can be implemented to meet the individual needs of students with disabilities to ensure that a child with a disability is served in a setting where the child can be educated successfully in the LRE.

What is a continuum of services?

200
The student's educational placement is based on this document.
What is the IEP?
200

Makes the least restrictive environment decisions, including the specific determinations of appropriate educational services, location, and building or facility.

What is the IEP team/ARDC?

200

A principle that guides a child’s education program.

What is the Least Restrictive Environment?

300

These range from the least restrictive setting to the most restrictive ones.

What are placement options?

300
Least restrictive environment is in place when students with ____________ are educated with students without disabilities, to the maximum extent appropriate.
What is disabilities?
300

Special Education Teacher, regular education teacher, LEA representative, parents, the child, if appropriate, and other individuals who have knowledge or special expertise regarding the child.

Who are the members of the IEP team/ARDC?

300

Aids, services, and other supports that are provided in regular education classes or other education-related settings to enable children with disabilities to be educated with nondisabled children to the maximum extent appropriate

What are supplementary aids and services?

400
If the IEP team determines that a child cannot be educated satisfactorily in the regular education classroom, even with supplementary aids and services, then an _____________ ______________ must be considered.
What is an alternative placement?
400
A full ___________ of placement options are made available to each eligible child.
What is a continuum?
400

What are the student's needs? What are the appropriate placement options that match the needs? Where is the least restrictive location that this can be provided? Have appropriate supplemental aids and services been considered to assure LRE?

What are questions that must be answered in order to make appropriate placement decisions?

400

Encompasses regular classrooms and other settings in schools such as lunchrooms and playgrounds in which children without disabilities participate

What is the general education environment?

500
A determination of LRE must be made on an ____________ basis, considering each child's unique educational needs and circumstances, rather than their disability, and be based on their IEP.
What is individualized?
500
Parents may file for this if they dispute their child's placement.
What is mediation, due process or state complaint?
500

To the ____________ _____________ _____________, children with disabilities, including children in public or private institutions or other care facilities are educated with children who are non-disabled.

What is maximum extent appropriate?

500

The least restrictive environment is one that, to the greatest extent possible, satisfactorily educates children with disabilities with typically developing children in the _____ school that children would attend if the child was not disabled.

What is the same?

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