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ERIC Number: ED378774
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1994
Pages: 37
Abstractor: N/A
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Best Practices in School Psychology: Peabody Reintegration Project.
Fuchs, Douglas; And Others
The debate about whether special education should abolish or conserve its cascade of services model has produced conservationists, who believe in a case-by-case approach to integration by which movement into less restrictive settings is planned, implemented, and evaluated individually, and abolitionists, who work for full inclusion of all students with disabilities into regular classrooms. Because case-by-case reintegration embodies the individualization principle and is supported by federal law, it is the approach used by the Peabody Reintegration Project at Vanderbilt University (Tennessee). This project uses curriculum-based measurement and transenvironmental programming to boost students' achievement levels in reading and math to a point commensurate with mainstream expectations. The reintegration process then begins, involving: recruiting the players, identifying the competition, scouting with a classroom inventory, developing the game plan, executing the game plan in special education, deciding to reintegrate, and executing the game plan in the mainstream. Evaluation revealed that mainstreamed students' gains slowed down or stopped after reintegration. Classwide peer tutoring was implemented to make the mainstream setting more responsive to reintegration students and provide the individualization necessary for continued academic growth. Annotations for three bibliographic resources are appended. (Contains approximately 80 references.) (JDD)
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Opinion Papers
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Practitioners
Language: English
Sponsor: National Inst. of Child Health and Human Development (NIH), Bethesda, MD.; Special Education Programs (ED/OSERS), Washington, DC.
Authoring Institution: George Peabody Coll. for Teachers, Nashville, TN. Dept. of Special Education.
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