Despite its generic title, the book focuses firmly on making sure children with special educational needs and disabilities are included, the most common interpretation of inclusion.
However, Jones also describes the way in which the word inclusion is now used more widely to cover children who differ from a setting's majority population in other ways. Jones also identifies an even wider use of the term to recognise that all children have individual needs. She suggests that those who are different in the more traditional sense of having disabilities or coming from a minority culture could be better served within such a universal definition.
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