Inclusion has attracted a plethora of diverse attitudes and beliefs as the society tries to digest the system of involvement of disabled students into the general system of education. ... Opponents against inclusion perceive disabled students as subjects to charity or asylum, who are incapable of leading ordinary lives. ... Besides, Houck and Roger acknowledge that stigmatization remains immense with segregation of the disabled students into special schools (435). ... They emphasize that with inclusion, educational support services are made available in the general education milieu, and disabl...

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This segregation can be detrimental to both disabled students and non-disabled students alike (Tapasak, and Walther-Thomas, 1999). ... The general consensus among teachers, parents, and students is that there is a need for grading adaptations for disabled students. ... A teacher may also adjust the disabled student's grade by a certain percentage. ... Others feel that the disabled students may feel even more unequal if they have a grading system that is separate from their peers. ... The advocates also feel that placing disabled students in special education classrooms can be detrimen...

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Throughout history disabled children have not been given the same opportunities as most. ... Before the late 1900s disabled children were not even given the option to go to school. ... Some states are not able to provide specialized training to teachers, so they have the skills to aid students with disabilities. Other states are not offering assistive technology, even though they are required by IDEA to provide these services to students who need them. ... For example, Lee County (Florida) was forced to eliminate approximately 100 paraprofessionals and staff specialists who supported the lear...

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These special education programs essentially segregated disabled students from the general classrooms in public schools, but did provide more individualized attention along with different educational standards. ... Some advocates of the disabled are seeking to replace these special education programs with the full inclusion of disabled children into regular classrooms (Kavale, 283). ... Although, some found that students with severe disabilities were accepted by non disabled peers. ... In these classes any student who could not conform would likely to be unsuccessful. ... In a later analy...

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TTS technology may be appropriate for improving the comprehension of below-average and reading-disabled readers (Leong, 1995). ... These robust applications provide the student with instruction on troublesome words; the text-reader software enables the student to decode, pronounce, spell, and define words. ... Students Who Benefit from the Technology ATs like text-to speech are useful to all students, not just the disabled. ... Students can scan their reports and have the content read back to them. ... Challenges TTS technology has been proven to be a strong scaffold to both learning disab...

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It is supports and services brought to students through their individualized education plan. ... Many have heard horror stories about inclusion in general education: stories about the disabled student who is "dumped" into the general education setting and the other 20-30 students are ignored as the teacher's time is monopolized by the disabled student; or the cognitively impaired student who makes noises, screams, or otherwise disrupts the remainder of the class. ... While these arguments were originally made as regards to racial equality, the same arguments can be made for chil...

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For a learning disabled student, it can already be difficult to keep up with your work, but adding a social factor to education, one that is negative in many instances, can make their education that much harder on them. ... The overwhelming response was that students felt uncomfortable stepping in to stop bulling against LD students without the guidance of their teacher. ... The goal of this study was to find ways that inclusion can be made useful not only for LD students but also for general education students. ... The school has a strong racial and ethnic diversity amongst the students who a...

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Typical methods used to teach younger students, such as rehearsal, do not typically work in students with learning disabilities. At any stage of processing, learning disabled students may experience difficulty, particularly sematic-memory (Terry, 2009). ... This does not meant that savants have a better memory overall, but simply that in a given task they can perform better than non-disabled people. ... Classes are longer and students are now held to more stringent classroom behaviors. ... While this works for some students it does not work for all, especially not my son. ...

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It will also highlight its history and its impact to the life of the teachers and also to the students. ... This event marked the new era as students with disabilities are being recognised. ... The second reason is that, it responds to diversity of students in schools ( Kugelmass, 2004). ... Lastly, schools should be able to accommodate disable students in order to deliver them from segregated settings. ... Rouse (2006) states that technology also plays a vital role in assisting students with disabilities. ...

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The numerous court decisions decided to pass the federal law that protected the rights of students with disabilities and guarantee them that a free and appropriate supported education was available for them. ... There have been some arguments with congress about placing children with a disability in a least restrictive environment and how the regular education students will benefit from all of the advances they made to accommodate the child. ... It ensures that our nation's schools are safe and conducive to learning for children, while scrupulously protecting the rights or our disable...

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In 1986, Public Law 99-457, which is an amendment to PL 94-142, extended all of the rights and protections of PL 94-142 to 3- to 5-year-old children with disabilities and created a discretionary program to assist states in developing early intervention programs for families and their young children who are at risk or disabled from birth up to age 3 years. ... These goals apply to all students with severe disabilities, and they are what make up the structure of the intervention programs. ... Instructional programs for young children with severe disabilities should consist of systematic instr...

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