The program does not facilitate access to interaction with peers

This is a general statement about instructional programs in that as much as appropriate students with disabilities should be interacting with their nondisabled peers.  However, there is a data collection issue as well, particular in regular education settings.  Teachers need to be as unobtrusive in their data collection as is possible.  It is stigmatizing to have someone staring at you, writing down notes in a natural environment.  Teachers need to be creative in data collection strategies.

Potential Remedy

In a general education setting, the data collector may take data on several students at once, the student with disabilities just being one of them.  One might also use a pocket counter for discrete behaviors.  The goal of the data collector in a natural environment (say some community setting) is to try to be a surreptitious as is possible.

You can email Dr. McNair at jmcnair@calbaptist.edu

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