Friday, May 11, 2018

Effort to Mainstream Kids with Intellectual Disabilities Stalls

A 1975 federal law mandates that children with intellectual disabilities are supposed to spend as much time as possible in general education classrooms. New research, however, finds that progress toward this goal has slowed and perhaps regressed.

The study is the first to look at national trends in education placement for students with intellectual disabilities — previously called mental retardation — for the entire 40 years since the law was enacted.

Findings show that over the past 40...


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source https://psychcentral.com/news/2018/05/11/effort-to-mainstream-kids-with-intellectual-disabilities-stalls/135252.html

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