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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank you for your detailed post pp. You included a lot of information to consider.  My understanding was that the children were mainstreamed as much as possible within the self contained class.  Is that true in your experience?  Did your child get any opportunity to interact with the nt children?

To the immediate pp. Yes, he had an fba/BIP done but it was not thorough and just done by the same special ed teachers that don't seem to get HFA.  I was considering asking for the psychologist to help create a better one.[/quote]

In our experience, some of the kids are mainstreamed some of the time into the "regular" class. BUT it is not dependent on what is best for that particular child. It depends hugely on staffing. If they can't spare an aide to go with the children into the regular class, the mainstreaming doesn't happen. And a lot of times, the aide is busy (teacher and aide for each class, but 10 kids with behavioral issues tends to suck up a lot of teacher time. We were promised a lot of supports and time with the general ed students that didn't happen because of staffing (although they would never admit it was a personnel/$$ issue). Your child will be going into the regular class for the amount of time and during the part of the day that works best for the schedule, not your particular child.

I would exhaust all your resources at the current school. I would ask for a behavioral specialist through the school system to observe and make suggestions. If that BIP didn't work I would pay for my own psychologist to come in and observe. [/quote]

IME teaching (albeit not in MCPS), the above is frequently true for kids based in a self-contained class where the self-contained staff are also supposed to support inclusion/mainstreaming time.  A class that requires 1:5 normally is often going to have issues that prevent one of those staff from accompanying 1 or 2 (or even half) of the class to another location, and thus the mainstreaming support is likely to be very inconsistent.  You really need a school staffed/modeled differently for it to work (where others are providing mainstreaming support, or there is some arrangement for coverage, etc).[/quote]

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