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OP, I have a MERLD child and they pushed very hard early on to have my child in a self-contained program. It was an epic, all-out struggle. The schools wanted him in a self-contained program because it was easiest for them -- plain and simple. That program had the space and the staffing all set up. To have my child in an inclusive program, he needed a one on one aide, and they didn't want to pony up for that.

We had Stephen Camarata phone conference in to one of our IEP meetings, as the IEP team argued for their self-contained classes, Dr. Camarata asked them calmly to provide us with numbers as to how many kids ever move from their self-contained program into mainstream.

That immediately shut them up.

You want your child in a language-rich environment. A lot of times self-contained classes feel a lot more comfortable, because a child with a language disorder will struggle in an inclusion classroom at times. But with no peer models, how will your child ever catch up in language?

Center-based classrooms turn into glorified babysitting.

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Our child was in a inclusion classroom for a year. It was horrible. They put all kids with IEP's regardless of need in it.   He hated going to school as he wasn't used to kids acting up and getting physical with him and it really upset him. They also slowed down the teaching as some kids couldn't handle the curriculum.  We refused it the next year and it was so much better.  People assume kids with language issues cannot function but many can and do just as well as other kids with just minor supports (though our school will not even give minor supports).[/quote]

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