Hello! I was raised with a sibling with a disability, and I've worked with children with disabilities for over 4 years. I am studying child and adolescent development and am going for my doctorates in school psychology. I see so many varying opinions and I find that it's different by state, too! I am a giant believer in setting kids and adults up with as many services as they need to be happy and have equal access to their environment. If that means pull out services, or full time in a mod severe classroom, I am all for it. There are other people who believe that putting kids in systems where they are labeled and treated like they have a disability is limiting to their future. What do you all think, and why? I personally think that in the ideal world, education would be personalized and everyone would have equal access to an education they can benefit from. Me personally, no disability, I wish I had more time to learn about taxes and have to have good credit, etc. Someone else might benefit from learning to do laundry and money skills for counting change or running a register. I personally feel like my sister is more limited since she had a childhood where she was expected to perform at the rate of her peers despite her disability, so she spent her time masking to make it by which I believe ultimately was harmful to her.

Please keep it clean and don't be nasty. I'm just trying to start a healthy debate to further my thoughts on this subject and give me more information to research on this topic to prepare myself for my future field, and also with the care I'm giving to my sister who lives with me.