1. 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.*

6. 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”

7. 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

8. It is our job as educators to give all children the chance to belong.
Back to the beginning.
CSUN School of Education