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The Ontario Ministry of Education document titled The Individual Education Plan
(IEP): A Resource Guide, 2004 provides a more detailed understanding of the
IEP in Ontario.^94


Placement


The IPRC is tasked to make a decision about the placement of a student once
they are identified as having one or more exceptionalities. The test that the
decision maker must meet is whether the placement is in the best interest of the
student.^95 Placement decisions are not concerned necessarily with bricks and
mortar (i.e. what specific school). Rather, the range of options include:
A regular class with indirect support;
A regular class with resource assistance;
A regular class with withdrawal assistance;
A special education class with partial integration; and
A special education class full time.^96


Placements should not be limited to these if there are other creative solutions
that best meet the strengths and needs of the student, and the placement
decision should be made within an inclusive approach to education service
delivery. Placement is not a defined term in the Education Act.


The Special Education Tribunal commented on placement as “not a description
of a physical place where a child is put to receive a program. A placement must
be described in sufficient detail to allow parents to make an informed decision
about whether the placement would meet the child’s needs”.^97


(^94) Ministry of Education, The Individual Education Plan (IEP): A Resource Guide, 2004,(Ontario:
Ministry of Education, 2004) online: Ministry of Education
http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/general/elemsec/speced/guide/resource/. 95
96 Eaton, supra note 67.^
97 Supra note 85 at D10 - D11.^
D v Windsor Essex Catholic District School Board, OSET (English) File No. 38 at 27.

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