Inclusion and Students with Learning Disabilities

Abstract

In the United States, students with disabilities have moved from learning in a segregated environment to being included in the general education classroom. Legislative mandates have encouraged this shift to occur in public schools in order to equal the playing field for students with disabilities. Both general and special education students with learning disabilities (LD) have been affected from inclusion. This chapter describes the legal, historical, psychological, and instructional concepts shaping the way students with LD are educated today.

Citation

Young, M.C. and Courtad, C.A. (2016), "Inclusion and Students with Learning Disabilities", General and Special Education Inclusion in an Age of Change: Impact on Students with Disabilities (Advances in Special Education, Vol. 31), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 13-29. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0270-401320160000031002