School Placement

1. Inclusion No Instructional Setting Self-Contained Class Resource Room School Placement One- to- One Paraprofessional Home School What Are Your Options? State School for Persons with Mental Retardation Hospital Class Vocational Adjustment Class Out-of-District Placement

2. No Instructional Setting • When a special education setting is not appropriate, but special services are required, such as speech therapy or special transportation.

3. Resource Room • Students who need intensive help to keep up with grade-level work in a particular subject may be placed in the Resource Room, where a special-education teacher works with a small group of students, using techniques that work more efficiently with a special-needs population.

4. Inclusion • In an inclusion class, or mainstream placement, your child will be in a regular education class with his age peers. In addition to the regular teacher, there will ideally be a special-education teacher whose job it is to adjust the curriculum to your child's abilities.

5. Self-Contained Class • Placement in a self-contained classroom means that your child will be removed from the general school population for all academic subjects to work in a small controlled setting with a special-education teacher.

6. One- to- One Paraprofessional • often referred to as an aide is a special-education worker who is not licensed to teach, but performs many duties both individually with students and organizationally in the classroom. Your child may be assigned a one-on-one paraprofessional as part of his or her IEP, or interact with a paraprofessional assigned to the classroom.

7. Vocational Adjustment Class • For students who are placed on a job with regularly scheduled supervision by special education teachers.  This applies to full- or part-time job training/employment, as documented in a student's IEP.

8. Home School • For eligible students who are served at home or hospital bedside.  Students served on a homebound or hospital bedside basis are expected to be confined for a minimum of four consecutive weeks as documented by a physician.

9. Hospital Class • For students in a classroom in a hospital facility or an approved residential care and treatment facility not operated by the school district. 

10. Out-of-District Placement • While a self-contained class may require your child to go to a school outside your neighborhood. an out-of-district placement places her in a specialized school specifically designed to address special learning or behavioral needs.

11. State School for Persons with Mental Retardation • For students who currently reside at a state school.