Inclusion of Disabled Children

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The writer explains the concept of inclusion; mainstreaming children with disabilities in regular schools. The author says that this is largely due to the requirements of federal law which encourages the inclusion of disabled students in normal education. The benefits and difficulties of inclusion are studied with the writer including his/her personal opinion that inclusion is beneficial not only for the disabled child, but for the non-disabled student as well. The writer explains the teaching processes that would be employed and concludes that although inclusion may be difficult, it can be successful.

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"In the 1700's the idea of helping the disabled was initiated during the French Enlightenment. This approach was to spread and the first school in America to help a disabled group, the Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons, was opened in Connecticut in 1817. (Including the Disabled Student) This was to lead to other schools such as the Massachusetts School for Idiotic and Feeble-Minded Children in 1850, which was one of the first institutions set up specifically for mentally retarded children.
"The realization that separation from others did not advance the education and treatment of the disabled was understood by, among others, Alexander Graham Bell. He wrote that, "Exclusive association with one another...only aggravates the peculiarities that differentiate them from other people, whereas, it is our object by instruction, to do away with these differences, to the greatest extent possible."

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