Inclusive Education for Children with Special Needs

Inclusive Education is a worldwide movement aiming to create one education system that values all children–to devise a classroom that welcomes all children irrespective of disability, community background, sexuality, ethnic background etc. The current conceptualization of children with special needs has replaced the negative labels of the past which called disabled children as lame, crippled, less fortunate or mentally retarded. The modern concept consider such children as unique whose uniqueness may be noticed in one or the other dimensions–vision, hearing, communication, adaptive behaviour, etc. Researches are being conducted across the world so that inclusive education can be made more adequate and thereby prove more useful. The present book is a complete treatise on inclusive education with particular emphasis on children with special needs. It seeks to find out how information/findings from researches on inclusion can be employed to influence inclusive practices in classrooms in a positive way. It provides useful tips and strategies to those who need to know as to why, whom and how to include children with special needs in regular classroom activities. The facts and findings stated in this book in the form of tables, pictures, boxes and small but separate sections will prove comprehensible inputs for school reforms and reorganizations to achieve full inclusion. A detailed bibliography has been included in the book to enable the inquisitive readers to pursue the subject further. The students and research scholars of education will find this book highly useful. In addition, the planners, administrators, functionaries of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan and social workers will consider it extremely informative.