Correct Answer - Option 1 : They have a right to inclusive education and study in regular schools
Philosophical Perspectives of children with special needs
Inclusion is a philosophy or concept that aims at fostering mutual respect among people and their different ways of life. The institution changes its philosophy, its curriculum, its structure to accommodate the different needs of the individuals.
- Inclusion does not stem from the rhetoric of tolerance, or of celebrating unity in diversity, of seeing commonalities among individuals. It does not see the individual separate from her or his political, social-economic, religious, gendered, and disabled background.
- Every student has a right to be educated among normal students in a normal setting without any discrimination.
- In the inclusive classroom, each student gets access to knowledge, skills and information, which improve available choices to all children and we do not necessarily limit ourselves to knowledge domain, but rather include the affective domain, and the attitudinal domain as well.
- The individual in an inclusive institution is not “existing in a vacuum”, but is in a sociocultural context. Inclusive schools or setups facilitate an environment where everyone works together creatively so that each student participates, learns, and benefits.
- Inclusive schools see diversity as the reality as they accommodate students from different ethnic groups, language groups, cultures, family situations, and social and economic backgrounds with different interests and purposes for learning and different abilities and styles of learning.
- The fundamental principle of the inclusive school is that all children should learn together, where possible and that ordinary schools must recognize and respond to the diverse needs of their students, while also having a continuum of support and services to match these needs.
Hence, we can conclude that children with special needs have the right to inclusive education and study in regular schools.
