Inclusion

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Inclusion

• The goal of inclusion is to make all children
  feel like they belong.

2
Why educate these students in typical
classrooms???

• These students need constant stimulation and
  peers that they can model from. This is not
  always available in a special education
  classroom.

3
What is our ultimate goal for all students?

• All students should become productive members of
  the community. They should learn to follow
  rules, laws, and directions. They should lead
  happy rewarding lives and have friends.

4
Benefits to students without disabilities

• Typical students will learn an increased
  appreciation for diversity, compassion, improved
  social and emotional development, and to value
  relationships of people with diverse needs.

5
If a child has trouble seeing

• This is how he or she will look in your class if
  they are seated in the back!

Please seat children with vision impairments in
the front of the classroom.
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This may look like a dog dish to you

• But, like typical dogs, Snoopy only knows to bend
  down and eat out of the dish when he is taught
  how to use it. He needs modifications.
• For example
• physically guide him through it
• a picture of a dog eating from the dish
• verbally remind him bend down or eat from the
  dish

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Kids need to understand that it is OK to make a
mistake.

• If frustrated with the work, children can learn
  to
• ask for help
• ask for a break
• ask for workload to be reduced
• work for positive reinforcement

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It is our job as educators to give all children
the chance to belong.

• Back to the beginning.
• CSUN School of Education