Inclusive education

Most educators believe that children with disabilities and non disabled children should be taught together whenever possible . Isolating children with disabilities may lower their self-esteem and may reduce their ability to deal with other person . The practice of integrating children with disabilities is referred to as inclusion . The rights discourse fundamentally challenges the notion of `special educational need . Colin Barnes and Michael Oliver (1995 , for example , argue that what is needed is a comprehensive legislative programme which establishes a suitable framework for the enforcement of policies which ensure the integration of

disabled people into the mainstream economic and social life of the community , and provides public confirmation that discrimination against disabled people for whatever reason is no longer acceptable Legislation , which emphasizes civil rights rather than individual needs and focuses on the disabling society in which we live , and not upon individual disabled people (Barnes and Oliver , 1995 ,

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Many children with disabilities attend regular classes most of the school day : They work with a specially trained teacher for part of each day to improve specific skills . These sessions may be held in a resource room , equipped with such materials as Braille typeand relief maps for blind students . Other students with disabilities attend special classes most of the day but join the rest of the children for certain activities . For example , students with mental retardation (MR ) may join other children who do not have MR for art and physical education

Special Education (instruction that is modified or particularized for those students with special needs , some of which include : learning differences , mental health problems , specific disabilities (physical or developmental , and giftedness ) as we know it today has evolved over time through changes in the law . According to Simmons K Nind M (2003 Governments have attempted on several occasions to pare back the provision offered in the legal framework of special education , generally for financial reasons and under pressure from the local authorities who are legally responsible for providing the relevant services (P . 97

The rights discourse fundamentally challenges the notion of `special educational need ' its argue that what is needed is a comprehensive legislative programme which establishes a suitable framework for the enforcement of policies which ensure the integration of disabled people into the mainstream economic and social life of the community , and provides public confirmation that discrimination against disabled people for whatever reason is no longer acceptable . In other words legislation , which emphasizes civil rights rather than individual needs and focuses on the disabling society in which we live , and not upon individual disabled people (Barnes and Oliver , 1995 ,

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History

1840-1900

It was generally thought that the existence of some evil taint in the parents insanity , epilepsy , and drunkenness have a powerful influence to induce insanity in the offspring . Few first cousins marry and have healthy families also it has been supposed that mental or moral shocks to the mother before her child is born may be responsible for the unhinging or non-development of the mind...