Educating Students with Chronic Illness: How the Old Service Model Fails

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Author(s): Margaret Tseng (Marymount University, USA)and Rebecca Magee Pluta (Special Education Advocate, USA)
Copyright: 2016
Pages: 20
Source title: Challenges Surrounding the Education of Children with Chronic Diseases
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Maria Gordon (Voyageur Memorial Elementary School, Canada)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9452-1.ch011

Keywords: Education / Information Science Reference / K-12 Education / Special Education

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Students with chronic illness have historically received an education via home and hospital instruction during their absences. This instruction is significantly inferior in both quality and quantity when compared with the educational experience of students able to attend school. This case study details the experiences of a middle school student in the mid-Atlantic Region of the United States whose chronic illness presented unique and multifaceted challenges that could not be met by her district's inflexible policies and disconnected resources. This case illuminates the need for schools to break away from the traditional administrative special education mold when responding to the challenges of educating frequently absent students with chronic illness. The educational Civil Rights of these students can be preserved, however, by utilizing affordable, available technology to minimize the impact of frequently missed classes, provide continuity of instruction and allow educational access regardless of a student's physical location during their absences from school.

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