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- Title: An Appreciative Inquiry Into the Circle of Friends Program: The Benefits of Social Inclusion of Students with Disabilities (Report)
- Author : International Journal of Whole Schooling
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 243 KB
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This study describes a research partnership among university, state legislature, and public schools to examine benefits of social inclusion of students with disabilities assisted by the Circle of Friends Program (COFP). School-university research partnerships are often viewed as effective ways to improve services to students who receive services from special education (Ainscow, Booth, & Dyson, 2004). Nearly 14% of all students in the United States receive some form of special education assistance in accordance with federal legislation, most recently reauthorized in 2004 as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEIA)(Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004, 2004). Students who qualify to receive services under IDEIA are frequently referred to as students with disabilities. Of these students, African American and Hispanic students are more likely than other groups to be classified as having a disability (National Center for Learning Disabilities, 2007; Utley, Kozleski, Smith, & Draper, 2002). In effect, African American students constitute approximately 16% of the school aged population in urban schools, yet they represent more than 30% of the special education population (A. Smith & Kozleski, 2005).
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