Behavior Issues a Challenge in Student Integration

ALTOONA, Pa. -- For four decades, federal law has enabled children with disabilities to be integrated with regular education students at school, but even today that integration is a puzzle in progress.

 "Not a lot of regular education teachers have the level of training to respond to students' behaviors," special education legal advocate Kathy Custren said.

She represented an Altoona student in court who was criminally charged for striking a teacher during an aggressive "meltdown," a characteristic of his Asperger's syndrome. He currently attends cyber school because of the charges.