Placement Options

Below is the list of placement options.

• Regular class with indirect support, where the student is placed in a regular class for the entire day, and the teacher receives specialized consultative services.
• Regular class with resource assistance, where the student is placed in a regular class for most or all of the day and receives specialized instruction, individually, or in a small group, within the regular classroom from a qualified special education teacher.
• Regular class with withdrawal assistance, where the student is placed in a regular class and receives instruction outside the classroom, for less than 50 percent of the school day, from a qualified special education teacher.
• Special education placement with partial integration, where the student is placed by the IPRC in a special education class in which the student-teacher ratio conforms to Regulation 298, section 31 (which identifies the maximum enrolment in a special education class shall depend upon the extent of the exceptionalities of the pupils in the class and the special education services that are available to the teacher) for at least 50 percent of the school day, but is integrated with a regular class for at least one instructional period daily.
• A full-time special education class where the student-teacher ratio conforms to Regulation 298, section 31 (which identifies the maximum enrolment in a special education class shall depend upon the extent of the exceptionalities of the pupils in the class and the special education services that are available to the teacher), for the entire school day.