Continuum of Services
Criteria for Determining Placement
Appropriate Placements
Definitions
Law
100
Is intended 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?
100
The student's educational placement is based on this document.
What is the IEP?
100
Makes the least restrictive environment decisions, including the specific determinations of appropriate educational services, location, and building or facility.
What is the IEP team?
100
The place where an eligible student may receive FAPE. This is not necessarily the general education classroom.
What is the Least Restrictive Environment?
100
This 2004 act requires many things for special education including IEPs, procedural safeguards, and the least restrictive environment.
What is IDEA 2004?
200
Points on the continuum of options available to a child with a disability -- Consulting teacher services, co-teaching services, collaborative services, pull-out services and/or special classes, general education, special education, home, hospital
What are placement options?
200
Least restrictive environment is in place when students with ____________ are educated with students without disabilities, to the maximum extent appropriate.
What is disabilities?
200
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?
200
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?
200
The year that LRE became a part of special education law.
What is 1975?
300
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?
300
A full ___________ of placement options are made available to each eligible child.
What is a continuum?
300
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?
300
Encompasses regular classrooms and other settings in schools such as lunchrooms and playgrounds in which children without disabilities participate
What is the regular education environment?
300
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?
400
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?
400
Parents may file for this if they dispute their child's placement.
What is mediation, due process or state complaint?
400
If the IEP team determines that the child cannot be educated _______________, even with supplementary aids and services, an alternative placement is considered.
What is satisfactorily?
400
The basic floor of opportunity for children with disabilities that schools need to provide. It provides a good but not necessarily the best education possible, nor one that will maximize the child’s educational potential.
What is educational benefit?
400
Special classes, separate schooling, or other removal of children with disabilities from the regular educational environment occurs only if the nature or severity of the _____________ is such that education in regular classes with the use of supplementary aids and services cannot be achieved satisfactorily.
What is the disability?
500
Sometimes the _________ education environment is the most restrictive environment.
What is the regular education environment?
500
Schools must provide parents with _____ written notice about the placement decision in reasonable time before it implements that decision.
What is prior?
500
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?
500
Neither federal or state law uses this term.
What is inclusion?
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.
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