Identification of the Advantages and Disadvantages of Special Education Service Delivery in Rural Kentucky as a Basis for Generating Solutions to Problems

Abstract

This article describes a class project in which rural special education personnel in Kentucky were asked to identify critical incidents in which providing services in their local area had been an advantage or a disadvantage. The 48 incidents collected were divided into categories for discussion and, subsequently, served as a basis for the generation of solutions to local problems encountered In rural special education service delivery.