Hence, inclusion has emerged as a way of educating students with disabilities within the least restrictive environment. ... Inclusion describes the practice of placing students with special needs first into the general education system and only moving toward a more restrictive setting if the students cannot benefit educationally from the general education classroom (Guzzetti 339). ... They suppose that full-time placement of students with disabilities in regular classrooms is likely to have adverse effect on the instructional environment for all learners, and consequently, overall student i...

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The amendment required that a student should be placed in an environment with the fewest restrictions and the greatest opportunities in the context of a particular disability. This was known as the least restrictive environment. ... But they also found the special education setting to be a supportive and quite environment where they could receive extra academic assistance. In a later analysis of full-time mainstreaming with Project MELD (Mainstream Experiences for Learning Disabled), the issue of whether the regular education class can provide an environment in which students with learni...

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