Inclusive education

Inclusive education- means providing education to the disabled child in the regular school and class, together with non-disabled children, right from the beginning of school years.

• Inclusive Education means education for all children in school. It refers to the inclusion of all children in the education system, regardless of their differences and disabilities.

Important Points

• It values the diversity, each child brings to the classroom and facilitates all with equal opportunities to learn and grow.
• Inclusive education improves the quality and makes provisions of education for all.
• Inclusive education welcomes and celebrates diversity.
• It provides a provision to include disabled children along with normal children in a regular classroom environment.
• It refers to an education system that accommodates all children regardless of their physical, intellectual, social, emotional, linguistic, or other conditions

Additional Information

Features of Inclusive Education:

• Those who advocate inclusive education believe that all children with disabilities, regardless of the type and degree of severity of the disability, can be educated in the regular classroom along with other children.
• This becomes possible when the regular school and the teachers there are equipped to meet the special needs of children with disabilities. 
• Responding to the diversity listening to unfamiliar voices being open, empowering all members and collaborating differences in defined ways, and learning to live with one another.

So, Inclusive Education celebrates diversity in the classroom.