- A student with a disability has the right to a Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) in the Least Restrictive Environment (LRE). General education is the LRE.
- Services are generally portable, and special education is delivered to the student to enable access to FAPE within the LRE to the maximum extent appropriate.
- Federal law protects a student’s right to FAPE within the LRE in light of a child’s circumstances, not for convenience of resource allocation.
- No student rights are waived due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The National Association of State Directors of Special Education provides a brief about LRE during the pandemic. The NASDSE brief includes examples of what LRE might look like for students doing distance learning or in a hybrid model of learning.
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Podcasts
American Diagnosis – Who gets to be healthy? who doesn’t? and what can we do about it? Money, education, gender, age, race—they all have something to do with it. But we’re talking about the divide between the people who’ll live long and healthy lives and those who won’t.
An Arm and a Leg – A show about the cost of health care that’s more entertaining, empowering, and occasionally useful than enraging, and terrifying and depressing.
Code Switch – Conversations about race, hosted by journalists of color; the podcast tackles the subject of race head-on.
Hidden Brain – Hidden Brain explores the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior and questions that lie at the heart of our complex and changing world.
Mother to Baby – Chris Stallman is a mom/genetic counselor answers your questions about what’s ok and what’s not during pregnancy and breastfeeding. No judgment. No topics are off-limits.
Once Upon a Gene – Explores the world of raising children with disabilities and rare genetic disorders
Opening Doors – A podcast about accessibility in arts and civic life
Parenting: Difficult Conversations – Sesame Workshop’s child development experts have 50 years of experience with giving answers. They help NPR handle three sensitive subjects: magic, race, and death.
Pediatrics On Call Podcast – American Association of Pediatrics’ podcast on children’s health. Each episode features interviews about new research and hot topics in the field of pediatrics.
Talking to Teens – Hear parent-teen researcher Andy Earle interview the world’s top authors and experts on Talking to Teens.
The Dose – A biweekly podcast hosted by Shanoor Seervai of the Commonwealth Fund, who talks to leading experts about health policy issues in the United States and abroad.
Washington Department of Health – Topics relating to COVID-19, in both English and Spanish