Reflection

This blog has allowed me to learn more about inclusion and find different resources to use in the future. At first I dreaded having to blog because I didn't know much about it, but now I am glad I was able to learn more about blogging and inclusion.

Mary-Charles

I interviewed Mary-Charles who is an education major with an emphasis in special education. She believes that there are students that should definitely be put in regular education classes but there are also students that would not be a good fit for regular education classrooms. She talked about how she has seen a little of both sides and this is the conclusion she has come to.

Avery

This is such a precious video of Avery and how she is included in school

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8TnKi_YblQ

Relationships

This is a good website that talks about relationships between students and relationships between teachers and students in the regular education classroom and in the special education classroom

http://xruffrydr9.tripod.com/inclusiontherightanswer/id20.html

Books

I found this link to buy this book with great inclusion strategies

http://www.valorebooks.com/textbooks/inclusion-strategies-that-work-research-based-methods-for-the-classroom-second-edith-edition/9781412979375#utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=NextagFTP&utm_source=NextagFTP

Ben's Experience

I have a very good friend named Ben. He has autism but is very high functioning. Ben has become like a brother to me over the years, so I knew I could sit down with him and discuss his feelings about inclusion. He didn't know exactly what the word meant but when I explained it to him, he made it very clear that he knew and could tell when he was being included. I asked him how it feels when he is being left out. Ben said "you know, sometimes I like to be by myself but sometimes it really makes me sad when people don't invite me to things because I wear hearing aids and sometimes clap really loud." Ben is very into sports (every sports team and different type of sport actually) and he gets VERY excited talking about them. He we on to tell about a time that the high school football coach at his high school invited him on the field and let him wear the coaches uniforms. He began clapping and talking extremely loud about this because it was something he is very passionate about. Even though this is not inclusion in the classroom, this is a great example of how inclusion in other areas affects people with disabilities.

This is me and my best friend/basically brother, Ben. 

Info

This website was very informative. I think this is a great resource to use to show people that don't know exactly what inclusion is.

http://www.weac.org/Issues_Advocacy/Resource_Pages_On_Issues_one/Special_Education/special_education_inclusion.aspx