Can Children With Special Educational Needs Be Taught In A Mainstream Setting?
The quick answer to this is yes. When children with Special Educational Needs are taught in mainstream settings, this is known as Inclusion. There are various ways that this can be handled. The first is with Special Needs Assistants in the classroom that offer support on a one to one or small group basis. The success of this depends upon the child’s specific needs and also health and safety considerations. Another way is for the child to be educated in specialist classes for the main subjects, such as English and Mathematics, so that their educational requirements can be met. The child then rejoins his or her peers for other subjects where the gap in ability is less obvious and where group work is an easier to handle possibility. A third way of education children with Special Educational Needs is to have a unit attached to the school, though this is not really inclusion as the children end up existing in their unit only, with some contact with mainstream children in the form of assembl
