“After I learned about the practical nuts-and-bolts of inclusive education (what it looked like), I found that the biggest barrier wasn’t that people didn’t know how to include students with disabilities. They didn’t think there was a problem with how we are educating disabled students in the first place.
As we have seen with other systemic issues in the world, if you deny a problem exists, it is difficult to change the system that perpetuates it.“
This insightful article describes 4 pre-requisites to including kids with disabilities in the general education classrooms. The first step is to recognize that the problem is how we think about disability. Exploring the difference between the social model of disability and the medical model of disability helps to lay out the issues.