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Special education services for learning disabled students in South Carolina serves the needs of students in three different environments. These environments include itinerant, resource, and self-contained settings. The itinerant classroom is the least restrictive and the self-contained classroom is the most restrictive.

The itinerant setting affords the student to remain in the regular education classroom and receive his services in this setting. The special education teacher provides assistance to special education and regular education students in the regular education classroom. The services that a child receives are considered to be indirect services. Students in this setting are working for a standard South Carolina high school [|diploma].

The ideal high school [|resource classroom] is a very dynamic space that allows for each student’s individual needs to be met on a daily basis. A resource classroom should be equipped with multiple laptop computers,[| iPad] Touch units, audio headphones for listening to speech to text software, study carrels, individual desks, tables for group work, and moveable walls to change layout as student needs arise.

The resource teacher must be a [|highly qualified educator] in South Carolina based upon [|No Child Left Behind] legislation. The resource teacher needs to be someone who has discipline, compassion, is very flexible, and organized.

The final setting is in a self-contained classroom. The county in South Carolina that the student is enrolled in determines which type of certificate or diploma a child can attain upon completing certificate requirements. The self-contained teacher must also be a high qualified educator.