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Participants identified numerous obstacles based on students’ disability related deficits, but overwhelmingly reported valuing student involvement in specialized health care procedures as beneficial to students’ well-being. School personnel may have limited awareness of and/or knowledge in teaching self-care skills within the context of health procedures to students with complex health care needs and severe disabilities. 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