Including Students with Special Needs: A Practical Guide for by Marilyn Friend, William D. Bursuck

By Marilyn Friend, William D. Bursuck

This unmarried most generally used Inclusion textual content keeps to supply the simplest resource of sensible ideas for instructing scholars with exact wishes in inclusive settings.  jam-packed with examples and vignettes, the emphasis is usually on instructing tools that advertise pupil independence in any respect schooling levels.  Its non-categorical method helps ensure all scholars’ luck despite their particular different types of exceptionality.    The 6th version integrates today’s expectancies for college students with the authors’ robust dedication to inclusive practices, tempered by means of the realities of day-today instructing. this article offers a company grounding in exact schooling practices, an realizing of the pros who aid those scholars and the approaches to make sure their rights are upheld, and a wealth of research-based thoughts and interventions that could foster their luck.

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The concept of inclusive practices, while not directly addressed in federal special education law, implies that students are more alike than different and that all students are welcomed members of their learning communities (for example, Connor & Ferri, 2007; Downing & Eichinger, 2003; Fitch, 2003; Valle & Conner, 2011). In the past, many students with disabilities were only temporary guests in general education classrooms, and few efforts were made to provide assistance so they could be successfully educated with their nondisabled peers (for example, Artiles, Harris-Murri, & Rostenberg, 2006).

Supreme Court case • School segregation denies students equal educational opportunity • Although referring primarily to racial segregation, this decision has since become the cornerstone for ensuring equal rights for students with disabilities Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Children v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (343 F. Supp. S. District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania decision • Schools may not refuse to educate students with mental retardation • A free public education must be provided to all students Larry P.

Supreme Court decision • The burden of proof in any disagreement about a student’s individualized education plan lies with the party bringing suit—in this case, the Schaffer family • Until this case, it typically had been assumed that a school district had to prove that its position in a suit was correct, even if the district had not filed the suit Winkelman v. S. W. S. Supreme Court decision • Parents of children with disabilities (in this case, the Winkelmans) have rights through IDEA and thus are entitled to represent themselves (and hence their children) in court • Parents are not obligated to hire an attorney to represent them in court Sources: Adapted from “Reflections on the 25th Anniversary of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act,” by A.

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