EDUC230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Resource Room, Learning Disability, Reasonable Accommodation
18 Feb 2018
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Learning disabilities accounts for under half of all the students receiving special education (about 35-37%) but is the largest group receiving special education services. Students with dual sensory impairments account for smallest category of exceptionality (about . 002%) Some researchers believe that if you added students with special gifts and talents to the totals they would be largest group at 3. 4 million. Largest # students receiving special education are between the ages of 6 and 11 (46%) Second largest group is between 12 and 17 (40%) The remaining 14% is between students ages 3-5 and ages 18-21. About 40% of those receiving special education services have a secondary or additional disability. Based on past trends about 1:5 or 1:6 students currently receiving special education ser(cid:448)i(cid:272)es (cid:449)ill (cid:271)e de(cid:272)lassified a(cid:374)d (cid:449)ill (cid:374)o lo(cid:374)ger (cid:374)eed spe(cid:272)ial edu(cid:272)atio(cid:374) t(cid:449)o (cid:455)ears later . Team approach to mastery a classroom with both mainstream students and students with disabilities with a regular educator and a special educator.
