I went to a high school in a low income area in Southern California . The school , despite being in a pretty shitty area , had some really good teachers and programs . In fact , I credit one teacher there with saving my life but that ' s another story . Anyways , at this school there was a special education program that was all about integration and not segregation . The developmentally delayed students got to have their own classes a couple periods a day , but shared lunch and other classes with the rest of the 3000 students as well . No matter what their disability or handicap was , they were alongside us at lunch , or in baritone choir , PE , etc . The severely handicapped students each had a minderguide of sorts , normally a special ed teacherintraining that would stay with that student for the full four years of high school . Students with less severe disabilities did not have individual mindersguides but instead had their own little groups of 510 with one minderguide for all of them . I got to know the minder of one of the students really well my freshman year when his student ran over my foot with his wheelchair by accident and he and I actually keep in touch to this day . Basically , this school was friggin ' excellent to these kids . But it wasn ' t just the faculty or staff . No one bullied the kids . I mean no one . Not because of fear of getting in trouble , or because they felt bad for them , or anything other than no one even thought bullying them was an option . Some guys brought their huge speakers and at lunch they would plug them up near the bathrooms that ' s where the power sockets were and they would just blast loudass music during lunch time a couple times a week . One of them started bringing this huge subwoofer once they saw the deaf kids come up close and enjoy the feeling of the deep bass . Dudes taught some of the downsyndrome kids how to crip walk and break dance , and some kids made dope ass streamers and shit for the wheelchair bound kids and rolled them around like racecars . Mind you , no one there came from a very wealthy or good home . A lot of the kids were in gangs , addicted to some sort of drug me , would get in fights with each other , etc . But no one ever treated the kids in special education any different . They would just kick it with them , teach them how to CWalk , teach them how to draw bubbletext and other tagging styles , share their food with them and everything . No one even cursed or mentioned drugs or fights in front of them , and all of us had terrible potty mouths . I have no idea where I ' m going with this or why I wrote it all out . I guess reading your comment reminded me of it . I know the kids at my school were never really good , but I really wish your brother ended up going to a school at least a little similar to mine . He would have found people that love him , and don ' t care about him talking differently . Most of us were weird as hell so we wouldn ' t have been able to make fun of him for that either haha . Best of luck to your family . 3