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Created three years ago, The Grace School is the latest offspring of Meeting Street School, which serves children with a wide range of special needs.
“We realized that we were just as guilty of segregating special-needs children as anyone else,” said Meeting Street president John Kelly. “Our families felt that their children were disconnected from their peers.”
No school in Rhode Island has gone as far to “mainstream” students with special needs as The Grace School. Each year, the school adds another inclusive classroom, with the goal of being fully integrated by 2015. So far, kindergarten through grade three classes include both types of students. Unlike most schools, where special-needs students are often taught separately, children at The Grace School are together for reading and math, art and music, recess and physical education.
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October 9, 2009 at 1:42 pm
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