Results of IDEA

I have been working one-on-one with a student who has many disabilities and and IEP in place. This is one of the many cases of the IDEA law in place at the school I am volunteering in. The particular student I am working with spends most of his day in the resource room because he has a hard time concentrating in the classroom. He does very well if someone is there to help keep him on task, but to do it himself is nearly impossible. 

After lunch he spends the rest of the day in his regular classroom with the other students. I know that he loves to be with other students and he is very social. There are several students that come into the resource room for extra help and then go back to their classrooms. This is following the IDEA law of trying to keep students in the Least Restrictive Environment. 

The student that I have been working with is actually being moved to a self-contained classroom next week because he is struggling too much in a regular classroom environment. I know that the teachers at this school have tried to do what they could to keep him in the school. Along with the parents they have decided the self-contained classroom is the best place for this student.