Has the continuum of services passed its freshness date? Are the disability categories still the best organizing principle?

• Which service delivery models are best supported for which students?

  • Children at grade level,

  • School averse children;

  • Kids without words,

  • Effective management of disruptive behavior,

  • Linking evaluation to intervention,

  • Attentional disparity

  • Analyzing the cost of different delivery systems, scalability

• Are teachers and classrooms still the best delivery model for special ed intervention?

  • Special ed skills all teachers need.

  • Specialized skills for individuated program design.

  • Interventions deliverable by teacher aides and paras.

  • New hierarchies of expertise

  • Public private partnerships

  • Scalability: balancing the cost of experts with delivery by para-experts.

Is general ed infinitely expandable? Is special ed expendable?

• Full inclusion,

• Teaching reading and dyslexia

• Analyzing/comparing the cost of general and special education

• The impact of block grants

• What are the structural dynamics of scalable special education

How has research shaped instruction and what is the research agenda for the future?

• Research linking intervention to outcomes:

  • Research impact on literacy and numeracy teaching.

  • Research impact on instruction for the autism spectrum.

• How should future funding be directed (if there is any)?

  • Research linking intervention to outcomes.

  • Research linking evaluation to intervention.

  • Research on scalability,

Coalitions past and future: stability and instability of special education entitlement and funding.

• Past

• Present

• Future

Due process…beyond the zero sum game.

• Game Theory and special education due proicess

• The cost of due process, financial analysis.

• ADR and due process: mediation, resolution, settlement.

NYC  

• Oral history of due process and its impact on evaluation, placement, and instruction.

• Non-public entitlement.