5 Key Ideas

5 Key Ideas

• Benefits of Inclusion for non-disabled students.
• Benefits of Inclusion for students with disabilities.
• Teacher attitude and expectations.
• Model: Universally Designed Inclusion
• Promote Inclusion: Post Secondary Schools and Job Market

Inclusion: Non Disabled Students

• Emotional/Social development increases for non-disabled students.
• Impact attitudes and beliefs, comfort and awareness, self-concept increases, and development of moral and ethical principles. Students also create warm and caring friendships.

Inclusion: students with disabiliities

• Students with disablilites in inclusive school settings, out perform segregated students.
• Growth in literacy, math and social skills.
• Increased memory skills.
• Increased social skill devleopment: lead to decreased behavioral problems.

Teacher attitude and expectations

• Teacher's often experience hesitation towards inclusion.
• Decrease hesitation by providing TRAINING.
• 1/5 teachers feel as though they do not have adequate support in the classroom.
• 1/3 of teachers feel as though they did receive enough traning to be successful in the classroom.

Model: Universally Designed Inclusive Schools

• Training for teachers: Pre-services and Post-service
• Aid teachers in developing pedagogical skills.
• Identify successful inclusive schools to model and refine meaning of inclusion.

Inclusion: Post Secondary and Job Market

• Advocacy needed for post secondary experiences.
• Career and Community certificate programs are needed across the nation.
• Employment advocacy: to improve empoloyment oppourtunities.