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Developing a Range of Options in Your Community

Supported by DPI Preschool IDEA Discretionary Funds. Developing a Range of Options in Your Community. What? Why? How? Where?. Preschool Options. Each public agency shall ensure that a continuum of alternative placements is available to meet the needs of children with disabilities.

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Developing a Range of Options in Your Community

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  1. Supported by DPI Preschool IDEA Discretionary Funds Developing a Range of Options in Your Community

  2. What? Why? How? Where? Preschool Options

  3. Each public agency shall ensure that a continuum of alternative placements is available to meet the needs of children with disabilities. 34 CFR 300.551 IDEA: Legal Definition

  4. In determining the educational placement of a child with a disability including a preschool child … the placement decision is made by a group knowledgeable about … the placement options. 34 CFR 300.552 (a) (1) IDEA

  5. “The full continuum of alternative placements at 34 CFR 300.551, including integrated placement options, such as community-based settings with typically developing age peers, must be available to preschool children with disabilities.” 34 CFR Part 300 Comments to IDEA Final Regulations IDEA

  6. District failed to comply with LRE requirement. Least Restrictive Environment (LRE) applies to preschool. Seventh Circuit Decision

  7. “Inclusion, as a value, supports the right of all children, regardless of abilities, to participate actively in natural settings within their communities. Natural settings are those in which the child would spend time had he or she not had a disability.” Division for Early Childhood www.dec-sped.org DEC Policy

  8. It looks different for each child in each community.

  9. Home “Instruction at home may be the most natural environment for a young child with a disability if the child’s IEP/IFSP team so determines.” 34 CFR Part 300 Comments to IDEA Final Regulations

  10. Educational Environment for 3-5 year olds with disabilities Reporting to DPI from LEA. Reporting Environments

  11. Preschool Environments December 1999

  12. Children with disabilities benefit from inclusion: Generalization of skills Reduced need for intensive services Why?

  13. Review of Research Children with disabilities in inclusive settings make more social skill gains.

  14. “Families realized that the children did better than we all had expected in the community placements and that they were acting more like children than special education students…” Bruder, 2000 Social skills

  15. Gains in cognitive, language and motor skills for children with disabilities in inclusive settings are comparable to those in self-contained. (Buysee & Bailey, 1993; Fewell & Oelwein, 1999, Jenkins, Odom, & Speltz, 1985; Wolery & McWilliam, 1998). Review of Research

  16. Children from segregated preschool settings are twice as likely to retain special education eligibility and three times more likely to receive services in segregated settings. Miller, L.J., Strain, P.S., McKinley, J., Heckathorn, K., &Miller, S. (1993). Review of Research

  17. Early Childhood Research Institute on Inclusion www.fpg.unc.edu/~ecrii Keys to Inclusion www.nectas.unc.edu Review of Research

  18. Research Addressed issues: IEP goals and objectives Family involvement in placement Research From Wisconsin

  19. “Effective partnerships between parents and professionals require collaboration. It is hard work.” J. Fialka Family Involvement

  20. Wisconsin Statewide Parent-Educator Initiative http://www.dpi.state.wi.us/een/parent.html WSPEI

  21. Awareness and dissemination Changing professional practice Collaborative planning Utilize research to address challenges Individualizing services/expanding options How?

  22. DPI Bulletin 00.09 questions IEP team considers to determine service delivery: Where does the child usually spend the day? Can the goals and objectives be addressed in age appropriate settings? If not, what other settings for service delivery will meet the child’s needs? Individualizing Services

  23. A high quality program is a necessary foundation of preschool inclusion However the program must ensure that developmental needs of young children with disabilities are met Quality

  24. NAEYC National Accreditation Cesa8.k12.wi.us Evaluation Tools Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale DEC Recommended Practices Quality

  25. Where?

  26. Benefits for ALL children Efficient use of resources Shared responsibility Collaborative professional development Improved referral system Outcomes

  27. www.preschooloptions.org For more information

  28. It happens one child at a time.

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