‘Out of My Mind’ is a children’s novel written as a first-person narrative by Melody, an eleven-year-old girl who is limited in her movement and speech due to cerebral palsy. Melody provides the reader with insights into her life and the way she is discriminated against by others. At the

I am a teacher who is committed to inclusive education, but I have not always held this belief. For a  large part of my teaching career, I taught students with disability in segregated settings. These segregated settings were special education classes and units, as well in a special school teaching

If you ask one hundred people to define inclusive education, you will most likely receive one hundred different responses. Here are five responses from teachers and assistants when they were asked to describe what ‘inclusive education’ means: 1. Inclusion is about being really safe in a safe environment, and special

Each time our students encounter a disabled person within the literature they read for school, they absorb impressions about disability. Literature shapes our understanding of who fits into the cultural ideal and who is an outsider. Literature may unconsciously reinforce negative beliefs about disability by portraying disabled people as evil,

The largest minority group in the world is the disability community, and every teacher will have a disabled student in their class at some stage. Despite this, there are significant barriers to disabled students being valued and accepted within general education. Historically there has been a lack of diverse representation

Pervasive myths about inclusive practice and people with disability have been absorbed into education, creating barriers to inclusion through stereotypical views of students with disability. This blog outlines ten myths which perpetuate myths and stereotypes about students with disability. Special schools and classes can be inclusive A few years ago,