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These are 3 benefits of inclusion for children with disabilities and typically developing children.
What are:
∙ More stimulating, varied, and responsive experiences than special classrooms composed of
children with limited skills
∙ Curriculum activities that build on a child’s strengths and preferences rather than a deficit
model focused on what is wrong with the child
∙ Opportunities to observe, interact with, and imitate children who have acquired higher-level
motor, social, language, and cognitive skills
∙ Implicit motivation to “try a little harder,” in that children without disabilities often expect and
encourage improved behaviors on the part of less skilled children
∙ Opportunities to learn directly from other children
Descriptions may include any three of the following benefits for typically developing children:
∙ Developmental progress increases
∙ Peer tutoring
∙ Sensitivity to others differences