Inclusive Education For Children With Special Needs (Paperback-2023)

Inclusive education is a worldwide movement aiming to create one education system that values all children—to devise a classroom that welcomes all children irrespective of disability, community background, sexuality, ethnic background etc. The current conceptualization of Children with Special Needs has replaced the negative labels of the past which called disabled children as lame, crippled, less fortunate or mentally retarded. The modern concept consider such children as unique whose uniqueness may be noticed in one or the other dimensions—vision, hearing, communication, adaptive behaviour, etc. Researches are being conducted across the world so that inclusive education can be made more adequate and thereby prove more useful.

The present book is a complete treatise on inclusive education with particular emphasis on children with special needs. It seeks to find out how information/findings from researches on inclusion can be employed to influence inclusive practices in classrooms in a positive way. It provides useful tips and strategies to those who need to know as to why, whom and how to include children with special needs in regular classroom activities. The facts and findings stated in this book in the form of tables, pictures, boxes and small but separate sections will prove comprehensible inputs for school reforms and reorganizations to achieve full inclusion. A detailed bibliography has been included in the book to enable the inquisitive readers to pursue the subject further. The students and research scholars of Education will find this book highly useful. In addition, the planners, administrators, functionaries of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan and social workers will consider it extremely informative.

Neena Dash, M.A. (Edn.), M. Phil (Dist.) (Medalist), Ph.D., Certificate in German language, Certificate in MTLD (INPA), NET (UGC) qualified, is a Lecturer in Education at Krishma Education Centre, Himachal Pradesh. She has attended a number of orientation programmes organized by the RCI of India, UGC sponsored National Conference on Qualitative and Quantitative Research at Ambala, Refresher Courses on Education and Information Technology organised by Academic Staff College of H.P. University, Shimla. She presented a paper on ‘Reducing Educational Failure of Children with Special Needs in Inclusive Settings’ in the National Conference on EFA organized by Rohilkhand University, Bareilly. She is the co-author of two books: Fundamentals of Educational Psychology and Essentials of Exceptionality and Special Education, which have received overwhelming response from her readers.