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" SUPPORTED INCLUSIVE EDUCATION " DOES MEAN:

All students with disabilities attend their

neighborhood school or the school they would attend if they were not

disabled.

Each child is assigned to a homeroom or home base

in general education.

Every student is accepted and regarded as a full

and valued member of the class and the school community.

" Special education " supports are

provided within the context of the general education classroom and other

integrated environments.

All students receive an education that addresses

their individual needs.

A natural proportion (i.e., representative of the

school district at large) of students with disabilities attends any school

site and any classroom.

No child is excluded on the basis of type or degree

of disability.

There is significant use of cooperative learning,

peer tutoring, and peer supports school-wide.

The building promotes cooperative/collaborative

teaching arrangements.

Parents are involved in designing and supporting

the education program of their son or daughter.

Administrators, teachers, and students learn to

accept, understand and value individual differences.

There is building-based planning, problem

solving, and ownership of all students and

programs.

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" SUPPORTED

INCLUSIVE EDUCATION " DOES NOT MEAN:

Dumping children with disabilities into general

education classes without the supports and services they need to be

successful there.

Trading off the quality of a child's education or

the intensive support services the child may need for inclusion.

Doing away with or cutting back on special

education services.

Ignoring each child's unique needs.

All children having to learn the same thing, at

the same time, in the same way.

Expecting general education teachers to teach

children who have disabilities without the support they need to teach all

children effectively.

Sacrificing the education of general education

children so that children with disabilities can be

included.

Adapted from Evolution of the Concept of Inclusion in School Programs

for Students with More Severe Disabilities, Barbara Wilcox.