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students with disabilities, inclusion would have such children
taught in a regular classroom
among their peers. But what if the
teacher isn’t trained to cater to a
student’s specific diagnosis?
The questions demand answers. In an effort to find them,
HuffPost reviewed the inner
workings, documentation and
correspondence between Greg and
Maya and their schools — hundreds of pages that trace their
struggle for their son’s future,
and the future of those like them.
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To those children like Max,
these abstract questions mean
nothing. While policies change,
mistakes happen, and a school district tries to emerge from decades
of expensive litigation and retrofit
its classrooms for students with
special needs, he waits. His parents think Max may be losing his
best chance to develop the skills to
lead an independent life. And he
could not even say his own name.
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