Special Education Inclusion - Assignment Example

Download file to see previous pages Today inclusion and mainstreaming are considered to be generating good response from exceptional children in terms of the overall development.
The State policy promotes inclusive education as the best and effective way of special education. Observation shows that the learning outcome of exceptional children in an inclusive classroom is far better than those relegated to only special education schools or agencies. Though there is divided opinion regarding the efficacy of inclusion into general educational set up for exceptional children, parents are banking on the inclusive or mainstream mode of special education. As per the policy, education provided to exceptional children or to children with potential disability in the ‘least restrictive environment’ or LRE (Sydoriak, 1996) could be considered as the aim of special education. However, there is confusion regarding what kind of environment could be considered as least restrictive. As a matter of fact, each child responds differently in a given situation but it can be assumed that the least discriminating the environment is the more relaxing it would be for the child to learn and participate. And this is where inclusive classroom succeeds in providing exceptional children the comfort level. But before all, an evaluation of exceptional children is important to find out the requirements of the children and the nature of special education they need. The State policy clearly states the necessity of initial evaluation as the key factor in furthering with any form of special education.
The evaluation process begins by seeking the permission of parents of the concerned child. According to the IDEA, parents who are dissatisfied with the functioning of the public agency in the evaluation of their child or not happy with the pace of development of their child, they can opt for IEE.  ...Download file to see next pagesRead More