The Blog of Ms. Mercer

Can be listened to here. The subject is special education perspectives and has Lisa Parisi and Christine Southard who team teach an inclusion class, talking to Glenn Moses and I, who are parents of special education students. I think it will be a good resource to point to for:

1. Teachers who still wonder why they have to have these students in their “regular classroom”
2. Teachers who wonder about inclusion and mainstreaming (vs. pull-out).
3. Teachers who wonder why parents at IEP meetings seem so defensive, angry, or difficult.

I will share that I just had the second IEP since my son’s autism diagnosis. It went pretty well, we have some more testing to do, but we’ve got more services. Since they still do pull-out it’s not too much (otherwise we end up with Doug Noon’s problem).