Personally, I’ve seen both settings work out and both settings fail. I think it depends on the needs of the child and the family support for each approach.

Right now the trend is to include all students in regular classrooms as much as possible with support to ensure that they are successful. Others argue that this singles out the child and that often they are not really included by the other students. I believe that each child is different, and what works for one may not work for another.

When my daughter and her hubby got custody of him, they immediately tried to work with his school (public).

The school would NOT help him. Yes, he had and IEP plan but they would NOT follow it, they would NOT give him the correct type of help he needed.

They kept him in all reg ed classes with a specialized teacher to come in twice a week for 1 hr to go over his classwork, and that’s about all. They were suppose to use special notebook paper, special books, large screen computer, some type of lens and magnifying. But they would not, no matter how much the parents tried to get them to.

This is not an isolated case. Special ed all over the country is VERY corrupt in public schools.

Anyway, his parents took him out of the public school and sent him to the only state blind school in the state.

They were also corrupt in some ways, but that got worked out and this school is WONDERFUL for him!!