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When watching "Least Restrictive Environment", we look at the LRE, it's important to understand that this is a question of what placement is best for a student to receive their education. This can looks very different depending on the student. The LRE is designed to, yes, give students their least restrictive environment depending on their needs, but also to ensure that students with disabilities are with their general education peers as much as possible. "A student's Individualized Education Program (IEP) describes their special education and related services. The IEP must also address LRE. And the IEP must explain if and why a student is being placed outside of a general education classroom" (Morin, 2023). The multidisciplinary team must consider what the student needs physically, emotionally, mentally, and even behaviorally. This could be whether student has a wheelchair, has sensory needs making it hard to be in gen-ed classrooms, or maladaptive behaviors that stop students from being among gen-ed peers. As a team, we develop the necessary accommodations for the student's specific LRE. I work in a self-contained autism classroom in which student's disabilities manifest as significant interfering behaviors. They come to us as a way to rehabilitate and learn coping, and social emotional skills to use and return to their home schools after showing the improvement required to function in their regular special education classroom. With that said, in the area that I currently work, it is quite restrictive. For some students we have the option to less restrictive, we go to adapted resource classes with the rest of the special education population, but have the means and support to not transition students who may have trouble with things such as elopement, or self-injury, etc, until we have gotten them to the point of transitioning without the behavior, and this sometimes requires transitioning them with the behaviors, so we can teach them. We have a student who spends his entire day eloping. When he first arrived to us, he would begin running from the time he stepped off the bus, until dismissal. We still do not yet transition him to resource classes, but he has improved to the point of running to the classroom, and staying there without eloping until dismissal. So we are getting closer to beginning to try transitioning outside of the classroom. In his home-school, they could not support this elopement behavior and he need more support than they could provide. So his LRE/accommodations became the Autism Day Program designed for students like him. References
GCU Academic- Education (2020). Providing the Least Restrictive Environment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeiDubRhQFs Morin, A. (2024, January 18). What is least restrictive environment (LRE)? . Understood. https://www.understood.org/en/articles/least-restrictive-environment-lre- what-you-need-to-know
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