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Inclusion

• Building Communities From the Inside Out: A Path Toward Finding and Mobilizing a Community’s Assets
  This publication by the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University, builds on the work of McKnight and others stressing informal, community-based supports and affiliations to build inclusive communities. The book discusses how communities can rediscover and ”map” all of their local assets; how to build on these rediscovered assets to become more self-reliant and empowered neighborhoods and communities; and how ”outsiders” (professionals, government officials, and representatives from the philanthropic sector) can contribute to this process.
• Integrated classrooms versus resource model: Academic viability and effectiveness
  Inclusion remains a controversial concept in education because it relates to educational and social values, as well as to our sense of individual worth. Any discussion about inclusion should address several important questions: Do we value all children equally? Is anyone more or less valuable? What do we mean by "inclusion?" Are there some children for whom "inclusion" is inappropriate?.
• Small Differences
  This video was designed to help adults and children feel more comfortable around people with disabilities, keep the attention of children over five years old and adults, show how people with disabilities get around, work, and communicate, promote discussion in groups and classrooms about disabilities, help viewers recognize barriers that exist for people with disabilities and encourage children with disabilities to strive toward their goals. Program Contents: 20 minute VHS video, open captioned , and 4-page study guide.
• Special education and inclusion
  Research-based reform continues to strike a balance between the academic theories and classroom realities. This handbook provides a set of guidelines for the preparation of skilled instructors at all levels and career stages of teaching; establishes a curriculum for teacher education; and offers a forum for discussion in the field among teachers, teacher educators, and administrators.