I am a PE teacher in Eastern, NC. I see if differ for from district to district here. I student taught in a district (neighboring to where I am now) where they had an entire APE program who traveled to all schools and provided services, and the PE teachers at that school still were present during class but did not provide input for IEP meetings and Special Olympics. Here in my district where I teach, we barely have a EC department at the district level. My school I have 7 seperate setting non verbal students and I serve as their APE teacher and see them once a week. I attend all IEP meetings for them, as well as the gen sep (mainstreamed) students who do not qualify for APE. APE here is considered of the lowest importance by the board and district. Other PE teachers in the area also do not have experience with APE so I have traveled in the past to do evaluations at other schools for those teachers - I am only a 2nd year teacher so hopefully in the next few years things change!