Annotated Bibliography: Inclusion Versus Mainstream Classes

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Inclusive education - how it started. (n.d.). Retrieved March 19, 2018, from http://www.inclusionbc.org/parent-s-handbook-inclusive-education/inclusive-education-how-it-started

In this research paper the topic is inclusion versus mainstream classes. Which is better for an autistic student to be with children like them or other not like them. Inclusion classes started back in the early 1950s, but instead of the class being just a different room from others, they shut the children with disabilities completely out leaving them with no education according to the Inclusion BC article. Autistic children have been the outcast of the world for a long time no one to teach them not even an actual school or class for them.

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(Dec.-Jan. 1994) Full Inclusion Is Neither Free Nor Appropriate. Retrieved March 16, 2018, from http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/dec94/vol52/num04/Full-Inclusion-Is-Neither-Free-Nor-Appropriate.aspx

In the website article from the Tennessee Electronic Library, Albert Shanker talks on both inclusion or mainstream classes. He mostly speaks on inclusion and if there was not any inclusion classes. For example, requiring all disabled children to be included in mainstream classrooms, regardless of their ability to function there, is not only unrealistic but also downright harmful--often for the children themselves. He says this because we do not know the child will respond to the class and if the other children accept them as their new classmate.

The Gale Group Inc. (2018). Autism. Retrieved March 19, 2018, from …show more content…

The encyclopedia states that, “these children are educated in special schools that have extended school years rather than lengthy summer vacations. Research has shown that autistic children need regular, daily structure and routine, and they maintain their skills best when there are not frequent disruptions of their daily school program.” In stating that the encyclopedia is on the side of inclusion classes thinking that the best for those children is staying within themselves and around others that are like them with the same