The overall education environment in which special education and related services are provided to a child with a disability and includes, but is not limited to, the child's instructional placement.
The site where a child receives special education services. Schools are required to provide a continuum of placement options. For a preschooler with special needs, these options may include a community program such as Head Start, a private child care or nursery school, or a segregated early childhood special education classroom. Decisions regarding placement are made at IEP meetings.
is the exact classroom your child will be in and who the teacher will be.
In special education, the process to determine the least restrictive environment for the student
the actual delivery of special education services that an eligible child receives
an opportunity for students to apply what they learn in the classroom and to contribute to the development of a community or a cause, with the benefit of supervision by a member of the bar
The child's IEP, the setting (regular class, resource room, self-contained class), and the school building the child attends.
The setting in which a child with disabilities is educated. Placement includes the school, the classroom, related services, community-based services, and the amount of time a student will spend with peers and others who do not have disabilities.
The day a child moves in with a new family to be fostered or adopted. Also the situation itself where a child lives with a new family.
The physical admission of a juvenile into any DJJ authorized facility such as a detention center, treatment center, foster home, etc.
Also known as entrustment, placement is the transfer of physical custody of the child from the birth parents to the adoptive family. Adoptive placement generally occurs after relinquishments have been signed.
The setting in which the special education service is delivered to the student. It must be derived from the student's IEP.
describes the point in time when the child goes to live with his/her legal adoptive parents.
the removal of a child from his/her natural home and placing him/her in another custodial sitting
The point at which a child begins living with foster or adoptive parents
The point at which a child begins to live with prospective adoptive parents.
A child's placement is the setting where the child's educational services, contained in the IEP, are provided. Placement is determined annually upon completion of the IEP. Placement is also determined whenever the IEP is revised and whenever parents or school district personnel propose a change in placement.
refers to the physical relocation of a child into a foster or prospective adoptive home.
The physical relocation of a child into a pre-adoptive living situation. When placement occur without termination of biological parental rights, it is preferred as a legal risk placement.
Duration of a child's stay in one setting, which may be a foster, relative or group home, or another setting such as an institution. More than one placement may occur during an "episode."
the classroom, program, service, and/or therapy that is selected for a student with special needs.
the setting/environment in which a disabled child is educated; includes the school, the classroom, services, and time spent with nondisabled peers
The selection of the educational program for a child who needs special education programs.