Events: Sat 8 Aug 2015 - Future Planning

Inclusion of preschoolers with profound disabilities

This study looks at how children with and without disabilities interact with each other. Findings show that attention may need to be paid to the encouragement of initiating interactions and to helping young children without disabilities understand and respond to children who have very high support needs.

Parent Involvement

This tongue-in-cheek article highlights the barriers parents face when trying to involve themselves in the school life of their child. It recommends that education personnel take a moment to self reflect after reading the article. Keywords: Education, School age

Educational support for students with severe problem behaviours in Oregon

This paper describes a survey of students with very high support needs in regular school settings and the success of the organisational structures which were put in place to support them.

Helping teachers manage the inclusive classroom

This paper describes how terms such as integration and mainstreaming are giving way to the concept of inclusion.

Surmounting the disability of isolation

"Special education needs to be reconceptualised as a support to the regular education classroom, rather than as 'another place to go'". This article says mainstreaming means you are a visitor and inclusion makes you part of the family.

Parent Corner: Five steps

This brief paper explains that a parent's role as a child advocate is both a natural and a difficult one. The author goes on to offer parents a five step program designed to make sure their children are receiving an appropriate education. Keywords: Education, School age

Citizen Advocacy

This is a one page definition of citizen advocacy. Keyword: Advocacy

Step by step: A system's evolution towards inclusion

This article describes inclusion as an evolutionary process in which a whole system must undergo a change. Such a process is traced in a collection of five independent schools in Vermont. Keywords: Education, School age

Integration: Facts and fallacies

This is a report of a presentation by Dick Sobsey. He presented results of a study into integration, part of which involved reviewing over 420 books and articles on the subject. They found that 80% of studies showed favourable results.

Peter? He comes and goes...'

This article presents the results of a study into the perceptions of first grade students regarding the part time integration of students with moderate to severe disabilities into some classes. The findings reveal a common framework by which they assess their school life.

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