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Why inclusion is important for not those with special needs?

Why inclusion is important for not those with special needs?

Racheal Fogarty

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Inclusion is important for all students, not just those with special needs. It helps children learn acceptance and develop friendship skills, problem-solving skills, and positive self-image. Inclusion also benefits families by promoting acceptance of differences and helping parents understand how to support their children. It teaches everyone to be more accepting and understanding of disabilities in the real world. Inclusion in the classroom allows for peer models and helps children build self-confidence and self-esteem. It can also possibly help reduce suicide rates and create a safe space for children to seek help and support. Overall, inclusion is important for creating a supportive and accepting environment for all students. Why is inclusion important for all students, not just those with special needs? Some people think that those with a disability shouldn't be in the classroom, but a person with a disability is no different from someone with a disability. They just need a little extra help. There are a lot of benefits that inclusion can offer. It isn't important for just children with special needs and their families, but for all children. A child that is included in programs and in class, they can learn acceptance of other people and everyone has unique abilities. Children learn from each other. A few of the benefits of inclusion for children with or without disability are friendship skills, peer models, problem-solving skills, positive self-image, and respect for others. It helps families as well as teaches parents and families to be more accepting of differences. Inclusion is also key for parents, which for that means parents can help teachers figure out strategies to use or how much to help individual children. The information I got from EasterSales.com, entitled Benefits of Inclusion, by Aaron Aguilar, which I also agree with the fact that for children being in class helps them to build self-confidence, also their self-esteem, just because we learn more from each other than we do from staff. So it helps us as people. I know with me having a disability, it can't be seen because I struggle with reading comprehension, so my disability is a little different than most, but I also worked with a child that has Down syndrome, and I feel the fact that her being in the classroom with her peers is not only benefiting her, but also helps benefit the family because she's being able to use her voice more and share things that she's learning and opening up more and wanting to play with friends versus being by herself. It also shows, I know there's a couple other kids that I know in my school district that has autism, and each of them have a different personality, different view, and it shows to the children that just because they have this disability doesn't mean they're any different, just need a little bit of extra help with work and stuff like that, and maybe even managing their emotions, or it helps others to understand, too, in the real world, when they come across a person that may have a disability, maybe how to help them, also how to just, I don't know, just do whatever it is they can to make the person feel accepted, no matter their disability or not disability, because even those without a disability, being in the class, just making them be a part of a group or project helps them to create self-awareness, self-confidence, self-esteem. It can also possibly help with, you know, suicide rates, like I said, it helps families because, even helps teachers, because then maybe if a teacher can't help in certain areas, a friend, maybe a peer in the class can help, or, you know, just having that explanation for an assignment. I know there's been times that for a class or whatever, I didn't quite understand the assignment or what the teacher was wanting us to quite get, so I asked my classmates, and someone was able to explain it to me a little bit better, where I got a better understanding of the assignment, and for that, I was able to complete the assignment and not just give up on the assignment, and granted, I didn't get the greatest grade, but I could have totally failed the assignment and got a worse grade, but at least I took initiative to, you know, find other ways to help teach or learn how to do the assignment. Also, I feel the fact that, too, by peer modeling, you know, we're role modeling to friends, even family, that no matter if we have a disability or don't, that, you know, we are all different in different ways, but we're also same in certain ways. So, I feel being included with a disability or without a disability is important in the classroom and everything, just because we do not know what everybody is capable of, and what are their needs. There might just be some where, at times, they need extra help, which is fine. Also, just the friendship skills, because it's building, they're building that friendship and that stuff, and knowing that it's okay to be around those that are different, because sometimes some people like to feel that a person that has a disability, you know, that it physically can be seen, for instance, like someone with Down syndrome or autism, that it can be contagious, and they can get it, and that stuff, which isn't true. But some people feel that, like, it just helps, basically, it just helps anybody feel accepted, and that stuff. And, like, problem-solving skills, like I said, it's helping a kid know, like, how to go about solving a problem if they aren't able to solve, and who maybe can help them in certain situations solve those problems, and stuff like that. And, like I said, just building that positive self-image, because if someone feels accepted, they're feeling proud of themselves, feeling accepted, again, it's lowering the suicide rate, or could possibly lower the self-self, also include, inclusion could also help create the fact that a child feels safe of talking to someone when they need help, or are struggling to be with friends, or even with thoughts of suicide or depression, you know, knowing that they can go and talk to, like, the teacher, a friend, a classmate, or even maybe, you know, family, you know, just knowing that they're available, being, creating that self-image, self-being, even understanding that they are the same as someone, and maybe different.