• Provides opportunities for students with

learning disabilities (LD) to be educated with

same-age peers
• Give a sense of belonging to the diverse
human family
• Enables development of friendships among
peers
• Helps teachers recognize that all students
have strengths
 Things an inclusion teacher need to know about the
Special Education (SE) students in his/her
classroom:

 Basic information on the Individual Educational

Program (IEP) goals
 The name of the student
 Required modifications
 Information on the student’s strengths and weakness
 Specific disability the student has
 Some legal requirements that has been
enforced by the Individuals with Disabilities
Education Act (IDEA) are:

 Teachers required to follow modification(s)

on students’ (IEP)
 LD students educated in regular
classrooms, unless supplementary aids and
services cannot be achieved satisfactory
Serving all students with special needs in
regular class
 Full inclusion
 Self containedclassroom
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
(IDEA)

This law challenges regular education teachers

and forces public schools to place those
students in the least restrictive environment
possible. Schools have a responsibility to try
to include students with disabilities in a
regular classroom
 Adapt the number of items that the learner is
expected to learn or complete
 Adapt the time allotted and allowed for
learning, task completion, or testing
 Increase the amount of personal assistance with a
specific learner, such as teaching assistants
 Adjust the way instruction is delivered to the
learner, in particular the use of different visual
aids, planning more concrete examples, and
providing hands-on activities, and placing students
in cooperative groups
 The skill level, problem type, or the rules on how the
learner may approach the work must be adapted for
instruction
 Some teachers may have to adapt how the student can
respond to instruction, such as answering questions in
writing, allowing a verbal response, use a communication
book for some students, and allowing students to show
knowledge with hands-on materials
 Adapt the extent to which a learner is actively involved
in the task; adapt the goals or outcome expectations
while using the same materials and provide different
instruction and materials to meet a student's individual
goals
 Mainstream
 Inclusion
 Full Inclusion
 Cooperative learning strategies
 Team teaching skills
 Collaborating team building
 Individualizing instruction
 Mastery learning
 Identifying
 Adapting to different learning styles