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[quote=Anonymous]Bethesda Elementary is known as an inclusion school and the school community has a very welcoming attitude towards special needs. They have kids with all kinds of disabilities at the school and a number of them have aides. These aides are available to help out with other students, including other special needs students, when they are not directly overseeing their charge so that reduces the burden on the main teacher. One example is a child with a physical disability who has an aide to help get from class to class or move around the class. But most of the time they are sitting and maybe that child does not need academic support so the aide helps others. They also have a very large number of therapists on site which can help with getting services like social skills support or pragmatics for speech.

In other schools nearby there is usually only one teacher for all the kids (not uncommonly 26-28) and one special needs resource teacher who usually focuses more on academic issues to get kids on grade level and doesn't have a lot of time for other stuff.[/quote]

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