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...inclusion is no fiscal panacea. O'Hearn principal William Henderson, himself legally blind, warns that it could be more expensive in the short run to carry out properly. Teachers must be retrained to work with special-ed. children, and additional staff will be needed to help. "Anything less is dumping," he says. Inclusion is also more manageable in elementary school, where the emphasis is on child development, than in high school, where students are judged by performance. "High school inclusion has little or no relevance in the lives of the severely disabled," says one high school special-ed. director...
Thomas Payzant, superintendent of the Boston school system, believes inclusion can be cost effective there only if he has control of the referrals for special-ed. evaluations now initiated by parents, teachers and other agencies. "We've gone from one extreme to the other in the last 25 years," says Payzant. "Now, if anything comes up, you refer the child. We have to get control of the front end, and we don't have that...
Many referrals involve such learning disabilities as attention deficit disorder. North Carolina's Dr. Levine says that the methodology used is often "ridiculous" and that add misdiagnoses abound. Ultimately, he says, special ed. is a resource-allocation issue. "We have to be honest," he argues. "Why can't a community say, 'Long-term therapy works, but we can't afford...
...special-education budgets mushroom, some experts are looking for ways to soften the mandates. Edward Moscovitch, author of Special Education, Good Intentions Gone Awry, has one proposal. "I would have an ironclad provision that if a child is making reasonable progress in school, he doesn't get special ed., regardless of the disabilities," he says...
BORN: Sept. 23, 1943, Pittsburgh, Pa. EDUCATION: Pennsylvania State U, B.S., 1964 FAMILY: Husband, Ed; four children RELIGION: Jewish/Christian MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Financial consultant; radio-talk-show host POLITICAL CAREER: Candidate for Fort Lauderdale city council, 1988, 1991; Republican nominee for U.S. House, 1992, 1994 ADDRESS: 3240 Seaward Drive, Pompano Beach...