Benefits of Inclusion

To Students
 Positive attitudes
 Development of personal principles
 Learn to be sensitive to, understand, respect, and grow comfortable with individual
differences and similarities among peers
 Reduce fear of human differences accompanied by increased comfort and awareness
 Gains in academic skills
 Gains in social skills and growth in social cognition
 Improvement in self-concept
 Warm and caring relationships
 Preparation for community living
 Avoiding the harmful effects of exclusion
 Students are placed in schools and classrooms appropriate to their age
 Focusing on what the child can do. Focus on strengths and abilities
 All students learning together in the same schools and classrooms with the services and
supports necessary for them to be successful
 Students with disabilities attend the school and class they would attend if they did not
have disabilities, following the same schedule as other students and receiving support
services in or out of the classroom
 All students have their unique needs met in the same class or school setting while
participating in all facets of school life.
 An understanding that students do not need to have the same educational goals in order to
learn together in regular classes.

To Parents
 Parents with students with disabilities are given every opportunity to fully participate in
their child’s education

To Teachers
 Collaborative support and improvement of professional skills
 Participation and empowerment
 Renewal of teaching
 Learn to be more inclusive citizen
 As a new educational practice, planning and training precede implementation.
 Ongoing professional development is important to teachers and others to be effective at
inclusion.
To Society
 The school value equality
 Acknowledge and celebration and patterns of treating people with disabilities as unequal
 International post-industrial information society prizes skills such as dealing with
diversity and collaboration (skills practiced in inclusion
 Contrasts between teaching and learning in traditional, industrial society versus inclusion
oriented, post-industrial information society.
 Friendship and social relationships between students with disabilities and students
without disabilities are encouraged.

Rationale for Inclusive Education in the Philippines

a. A many children as possible can be reached.
b. Enable more children with disabilities to have equal access to education
c. No need to create or build a new service infrastructure that would be difficult to
support or sustain.
d. Feasible and sustainable; existing services and infrastructure can be built upon
e. many individuals (children, youth and adults) with disabilities are living within their
communities. No or little history of institutionalization.
f. Since many children are living in regular communities, community based services can
be provided for them
g. Community-based services and supports can help define the “what”, “where”, ”how”,
“with whom’ of education, making education more relevant to community need and
issues.
h. Natural supports within communities can be utilized (e.g close partnership with parents