Inclusive education is contextualised within local systems and represents a continuous
struggle to ensure access to meaningful and equitable education. The purpose of this …

In this review, we applied Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory to examine factors
that support or restrict access to the general curriculum for students with significant …

Placement decisions for students with severe disabilities have often been based less on the
students' unique learning needs but more on beliefs and presumptions about student …

Using the least restrictive environments (LRE) data from annual Reports to Congress, this
study examined national trends in placement between 2000 and 2014 for school-aged …

Title: Handbook of special education/edited by James M. Kauffman, Daniel P. Hallahan, and
Paige Cullen Pullen. Description: Second Edition.| New York: Routledge, 2017.|“First edition …

This quasi-experimental study focused on 15 pairs of children with extensive support needs,
matched across 12 characteristics based on their first complete Individual Education …

Special education consists of specially designed services available for students with
disabilities, and should be available across placements. Students with the most significant …

The purpose of the present study was to investigate practices that support the inclusion of
students with severe disabilities in the learning and social activities of inclusive K-8 schools …

Collectively, different sets of research lead to one conclusion—that most students with
extensive support needs (ESN) are not being given appropriate, accessible, and meaningful …

With this position paper, we advance the case for reformation of US special education law
and praxis. These have undergone mostly incremental changes over the five decades since …