Parents may feel some conflict as to whether their child with autism should spend more time getting special services or more time being included in a regular classroom.
This study was designed to describe the special education and other services received by children with autism and then to get parent thoughts on those services. This article includes data from the Pre-Elementary Education Longitudinal Study (PEELS), which is a national study. While the study was designed to measure services for children with all disabilities, this paper had only the data for children with autism (186 preschoolers). Children with autism received about two more types of services than children with other disabilities. Parents of children with autism were also more likely to want the extra services. Read more...