Disabilities and Disabilities in International Education

SOCIOLOGY

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ABSTRACT
International educational settings face challenges in the educational inclusion. The human
rights suggest giving equal opportunities to the people having differences in them. This report
highlights the history of development in regards to inclusion for all with a goal of giving
growth opportunities to everyone irrespective of the challenges they are facing. Disabilities
are defined in different terms but the two major models are one medical and Social. This
report also defines inclusion segregation and integration and how they are different things.
There are various types of challenges faced by the teachers and students when there is change
in the language and terminology among the people. Giving every student same type of
learning experience is always difficult. It is found that including countries like Thailand there
are many legislative developments are going on.

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Content
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Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Overview of history development..............................................................................................2
Inclusion, Segregation, and Integration.....................................................................................3
Children were included in all aspects of school life..................................................................4
Inclusion problems.....................................................................................................................4
Changing language and Terminology........................................................................................5
Development of legislation........................................................................................................5
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................6

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Introduction
The word inclusion is a well-known term which is related to the social ideology or concepts.
It is related to people with special needs or in other words, individuals who are suffering from
disabilities and are truly in need of special education (Florian, 2008). Inclusion provides an
opportunity for these individuals to learn with their non-disable peers in regular classrooms.
Inclusion concepts have always been a very challenging task because of its complex structure
and pattern which are directly linked with the complexity being created by special needs at
hand. But with the help of positive attitude of the parents as well as the concern teachers such
kind of barriers can be easily overcome and a safe and secure environment can be offered to
these individuals (Zigmond, Kloo and Volonino, 2009).
Overview of history development
In past, children with special needs or disabilities use to receive very little opportunity to gain
a formal education. But in the mid of 19th century, many traditional organizations had focused
their direction towards providing education to these individuals with the help of special
schools in 1918s. Though these special schools are formed with the intention of just
providing education to these sections of the population soon they just converted into their
residential address with special faculties (Graham and Jahnukainen, 2011). But in 1919, the
state government started focusing on spreading the public school system in which these
children with special needs were excluded. As the time was passing, the community soon
realized in 1950, that someone should care for these individuals and hence, in 1950 people
who are trained in such practices were being appointed. Special programs were started which
included the parents of children along with the teachers to offer opportunities to these
disabled children to enjoy the beauty of education.
Soon, this positive attitude of the community had truly started bringing improvement in the
life of these special need children by providing them confidence that people are present who
really care for them. Soon, the higher judiciary system also interfered in this matter and the
super court came up with new rules in 1954 and had put great stress on the fact that the
children cannot be separated from each other on the base of race or some special needs which
really brought huge improvement in this education system (Skiba et al., 2008). Soon,
improvement was not only seen in the education system but also there was a huge change