[Partners Listserve]: School Prepares To Show How Far Inclusion Can Go

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Thought some of you might like reading this article that I received through

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Laila Kawar

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" School Prepares To Show How Far Inclusion Can Go "

January 12, 2007

PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND--The following three paragraphs are excerpts from a

story published Friday in Providence Business News:

Kindergartner Toth considers classmate andria Simoes his

girlfriend,

and the fact that she has a feeding tube doesn’t bother him at all. At

Meeting

Street, students with and without disabilities are used to learning

together;

the school works hard to make it seamless.

Founded in 1946, Meeting Street has been recognized internationally as a

pioneer

in educating children and young adults with profound disabilities and

developmental delays. “Inclusion” – educating students with and without

disabilities together, not separately – is central to its work.

“We look at kids with disabilities as the last form of segregation that’s

still out there,” said , president

and CEO of Meeting Street. “The kids always got it. Kids don’t have a

problem

with other kids.”

Entire article:

" School prepares to show how far inclusion can go " (Providence Business

News)

http://www.pbn.com/contentmgr/showdetails.php/id/124940

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