chapter 1

CHAPTER I

THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND

Introduction

During the last two decades there has been a strong movement to promote integration and fight segregration or exclusion.The reason being inclusion in various strategies designed to achieve equalization of opportunities.As noted,the idea of inclusive education has emerged as an international issue of responding to pupils experiencing difficulties in school.Mainstreming should be a want of an overall educational strategies and at the present special need education cannot advance in isolation.Exceptional children have a rights to study,to live and treat like a normal child and feel the same of belonginess and that they are accepted to the communities.
''Mainstreaming would be a pointless if we forced instructions to modify the regular education curriculum to the extent that the handicapped child is not required to learn any of the skills normally taught in regular education.The child would be receiving to such an arrangement would be that the child is sitting next to a non handicapped student.''-