“What did you do at school today?” A comparative rural and urban case study of students with low incidence disabilities

Abstract

This article documents the content of the days of two children with low incidence disabilities. One child attends a rural school, the other an urban school. The main question to be answered in this study was: How does a typical day for a rural student with a low incidence disability differ from that of an urban student with a similar handicapping condition? Similarities and differences in context and content, in engaged time, student heterogeneity, and in teacher pre/in service preparation were found.