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Re: Inclusion

From: Melissa Enderle (melissae)
Date: Fri Jan 14 2000 - 19:12:19 PST

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    Viewing students with special needs in the art classroom as a burden is
    unfair. The key is appropriate placement. I teach at a school that has a 40%
    disability rate (early childhood - 8th grade). The school believes that "the
    Least Restrictive Environment" is not necessarily the regular classroom.
    Rather, it is a continuum of placements - from self contained to full
    inclusion and things in between. To simply place all disabled students in
    the regular class is both unfair for the student, and others including the
    teacher and classmates.
    Regarding LD students, I find that art is one area that they can often
    excel. It doesn't involve major reading or other things that would normally
    reinforce what they can't do well. Plus, I have found LD kids to be more
    hands-on, kinesthetic visual learners - just the strengths of artists. In
    fact, I have often been shocked to find out that some of my best students
    were LD, some of which couldn't read functionally at all! Be sure that you
    don't lower your expectations or give up on a student just because he/she
    has a disability. You never know, there might be a art lover in there!

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    > From: "Janice Duncan" <jduncan.trhs@twin-rivers.k12.mo.us>
    >
    > I feel that in order to serve special needs students in art classes,
    > degrees will have to be specialized in the Special Ed. area with
    > emphasis in Art.
    >
    > You are not serving regular students fairly, if you have to
    > constantly devote your classtime to a special needs (L.D., E.M.R.,
    > B.D., etc.) students. 

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