Inclusion Strategies & Interventions

In inclusive classrooms, students with special educational needs are treated as integral members of the general education environment. Inclusion interventions honour the belief that all students are capable of meeting high expectations. The goal of inclusion is more than just preparing students to pass standardised tests and increasing academic levels.

With this book you can gain strategies to offer the academic, social, emotional and behavioural benefits that allow students to achieve their highest potential. Students with developmental needs may also have behavioural, social, emotional or communication goals included in that general education setting. Inclusion interventions connect the instruction to each student's unique needs.

This book encourages educators and learners to work together effectively as a team to achieve inclusive schools within accepting and inclusive worlds. It:

• outlines interventions for particular categories of learners and subjects
• describes ways to organise the inclusive classroom using principles like RTI, differentiated instruction, understanding by design, universal design for learning, multiple intelligences, multisensory approaches, peer mentoring and cooperative learning