What Must be Done?
 
 
(Bullock, C. C., Therapeutic Recreation in Special Education. The Parent Training Guide to Recreation. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina, Center for Recreation and Disabilities Studies.)
 
 
In order to deliver recreation and leisure services to special education students, a series of interrelated processes must be accomplished:

1. Increasing educators' and parents' awareness of the potential contributions of recreation by providing in-service training.

2. Bridging assessment for recreation with already existing comprehensive pupil assessment procedures in order to determine which special students need which specific recreation services.

3. Implementing recreation and leisure services through the vehicle of the Individualized Education Program.

4. Identifying and employing certified therapeutic recreation specialists as the 'qualified personnel' to deliver recreation as a related service and/or to assist school personnel (as consultants) in the delivery of services.

5. The Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Services, U.S. Department of Education, and state education agencies must monitor recreation as a related service to ensure that it is being implemented adequately and appropriately.

 
 
 
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