State Special Education Regulations and Their Relationships to Inclusion for Students With Intellectual Disability

• In Event: 16.060 - Roundtable Session 3
  In Roundtable Session: 16.060-1 - Academic Inclusion or Exclusion? Examining Research on School Laws and Policies Affecting At-Risk Students

Abstract

This session examines state special education regulations and policy frameworks that impact the inclusion rates of students with intellectual disability in general education classrooms. It examines policy differences between highly inclusive states and highly segregated states and contextualizes the impact of those policy differences for students with intellectual disabilities.

Authors

• Julia M. White, Syracuse University

• Deborah Taub, Trinity Washington University

• Meghan E Cosier, Chapman University