The Integration Of Special Needs Individuals In The Society

The Integration of Special Needs Individuals in the Society
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Abstract 3
Introduction 4
Discussion 5
integration of disabled young students with non-disabled students
Teacher avoidance attitude to special needs students due to the extra effort needed
Advantages and disadvantages of the integration process
Advantages and disadvantages of the integration process
Recommendation and Conclusion 11
References 12
Abstract
Children and persons with disabilities have long been put in designated schools and institutions detached from the rest of the society of able people. This ultimately makes them loose out about interacting with the real world hence enunciating their necessity for special needs. However, integration of these students into the mainstream education is the current trend to remove any kind of restrictive environment that may make the students perceive themselves as different from the rest. This paper critically examines the integration of special needs individuals in the society.
Introduction
Special needs students go to particular schools, different from the mainstream that offer equipment and tools that assist with the special needs and aid the staff to interact with them. The students are more regularly monitored and provided with attention required in the curriculum. This is intended to assist them to attain self-sufficiency that would be hard to achieve through regular education system. Using technology and different approaches of teaching and specially designed classrooms students for different individual needs such as disabilities in communication, emotions, behavior, and physical or developmental, they can learn in a single institution (Imber & Geel, 2004). In these schools, the ratio of teacher to student is kept far much lower than in regular school with 1:6 teacher- student ratio or lower.
Nonetheless, this mode of segregation is being disparaged, and there is an advocacy towards integration of these students into the mainstream education. In the past, disabled children were kept away from school and secluded from the rest of the society. Charles Dickens was instrumental in voicing the pleas of the special needs students ,who lived in inhumane conditions ,through his literature books ‘Bleak House’ and ‘Little Dorrit’ that helped stoke compassion from the public (Imber & Geel, 2004). He is attributed to reform in Europe. Only in late 18th century did the disabled students get their first institution in the world with the school for the blind in Paris, another for the deaf in the U.K and for visually impaired in Edinburg and Bristol. The mentally ill were put in the same institution as the physically disabled. There are still about 23 million children with special needs around the world. These children suffer from the aforementioned separation, and this has been highly recorded...