Inclusive education, a system wherein all students are welcomed by the community in spite of the differences in physical capability has been a hand for both children with disability and their parents as well. It does not ideally contain a specific range and limitation but its execution is based upon how a school plans to design their system.
Most often children with disabilities are believed to be better when given special attention other than what regular children receive. Such kind of attention is the reason why different forms of learning approach are given to children with disabilities from those who didn't have, without depriving the latter of formal schooling, according to Inclusion BC.
A recent study conducted in U.S. and Europe however proved that separating children with disability does not completely benefit the student but actually has negative effect on them as well. The feeling of being different and the pittyful attention they gain from normal children gives them a lower self esteem thus making them less confident and less competitive.
Though not generally implemented, inclusion has been proven to help people with disability in most aspects of life. Testimonies of people with disability proves that inclusive education actually helped them in their academic as well as their social development.
Aleksandar Matovski, a high school student with Down Syndrome from Macedonia testified how she benefited from inclusive education from primary to secondary. She said that she developed confidence in exploring different fileds such as music, poetry and karate.
Inclusion also benefits children with no disabilities as they begin to exercise broader acceptance. They also learn to treat children with disabilities with equality and without prejudice.
It may be a challenging and worrisome process to parents of children with disabilities to mix their children up with normal ones. But this fear is nothing compared to the long-term benefits their children will acquire when given the chance to study as a regular student would do, according to The Huffington Post.
