Special Education

Placement options

There is a range of placement options, from fully integrated classrooms to special education classes and provincial and demonstration schools.

Placement options include:

• 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% of the school day, from a qualified special education teacher

• special education class with partial integration where the student is placed in a special education class for at least 50% of the school day and is integrated with a regular class for at least one instructional period daily

• full-time special education class for the entire school day