Inclusive Education: Designing for the Margins Helps Everyone
From deaf schools and Braille to universal design, autism, learning disorders, giftedness and individual plans: how schools learned to teach every learner.
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1. The 1994 Salamanca Statement, adopted by representatives of 92 governments, declared what?
- Special schools should expand worldwide
- Disabled pupils should be taught at home
- Regular schools should include all children
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Answer: Regular schools should include all children
It called regular schools with an inclusive orientation the most effective way to combat discrimination and build an inclusive society.
2. What is the key difference between 'integration' and 'inclusion'?
- Integration covers more types of disability
- Inclusion means separate classes on one site
- Inclusion adapts the school to every learner
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Answer: Inclusion adapts the school to every learner
Integration places a student in a mainstream class and expects them to fit; inclusion changes teaching, materials and culture so all can take part.
3. In the 1760s, Charles-Michel de l'Épée founded a free school in Paris for which students?
- Blind children
- Deaf children
- Orphaned children
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Answer: Deaf children
L'Épée used and systematized signs to teach deaf pupils, and his school became a model for deaf education across Europe and the Americas.
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