


	ESE424 : The Class : Understanding : Types : Services

Special Education Services

Special Education services come in all shapes and configurations. As you read in your textbook, there are some typical special education service delivery options:

regular class placement

resource room placement

special class placement

special day school placement

homebound program placement, and

residential placement

Most medium to larger school districts have many if not all these options available to students living in their area of residence. For smaller districts, however, providing special education services must be more creative. frequently these districts lack the financial resources or staff to offer the full range of services.

I will use a fictional school, Dudley Dooright Primary School, to show you how a school might provide special education to students with disabilities. The information you see here is characteristic of how special education services are provided. Pay particular attention to the types of students being served in the different settings, the types of services being provided by the classroom teacher, the role of the special education teacher

Welcome to our school, Dudley Dooright Primary School. I think you will enjoy meeting my staff and touring our school. Since this will be a "virtual" tour, you will need to click on the teachers name to learn a little about their classroom. When you are finished, come back to my office and I will show you some of our special education services that are not on our campus. I hope you enjoy the tour.
Principal, Dudley Dooright Primary School
Anywhere, USA

Traditional Special Education Services

Alternative Placements

The Anytown, USA School District maintains two alternative placements for children with disabilities:

The Wainright School for Children with Learning Disabities

The Oracle Program for Children with Severe Emotional Disorders

Summary

The types and configurations that are presented in this unit, while fictitious, are characteristic of many special education service delivery models. Most school districts have a mixture of inclusion settings, resource rooms, self-contained special education classes, and some specialized services such as itinerant and homebound services. Alternative placements are dependent on the mix of special education students in the general school population and their particular needs. Districts often plan for the exception to the range of services they have in the present school setting by identifying alternative special day and residential schools. I must stress that each district is as different as night and day and that the roles of general education and special education teacher are quite variable across school districts.

Once you have completed this lesson, you should:

Go on to Activity 2: Outcomes of Special Education?
or
Go back to The Class Page

E-mail the instructor at Larry.Gallagher@nau.edu

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