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The Private Residential Program as Another Alternative to State Institutions

There has been a major trend in legislative, academic, and professional circles emphasizing the return of the handicapped child to community oriented services and to the mainstream of public education. This shift, perhaps an extreme swing of the pendulum, is a reaction to widely publicized problems in state institutions, both in New York and other states. Any such swing of the pendulum is likely to result in just as many problems as the original area of concern presented. However, one should be aware of the many difficulties which do exist in serving handicapped children in local public school programs. Over the course of many years, parents have come to the private institutions because of the lack of facilities in the local public schools. It is true that there are several good special education programs within the public schools. Unfortunately, there are also many poor ones, in which the special education class is merely a babysitting device or is the garbage pail for the school system, into which are dumped all children who do not easily fit into the regular academic program. It is true that major efforts are being made to upgrade the level of special education services in the public school program, but it is important to recognize that the issue is not one of technique, program, or method; rather, it is one of the individual capacity of the teacher to work with devotion, dedication, and expertise in meeting the needs of special children. In spite of all that can be done to improve educational methods for special education teachers, it is likely to be true for a long while that this level of dedication and expertise is to be found only among a limited few and that the large majority of teachers in special education programs will inevitably be inadequate to meet the varied and fairly severe problems of children in their groups, despite the best of their intentions. In addition, it must be a matter of concern that many children not only require special education but also have family and home