What accounts for the gap between good intentions and good practice?
Frequently, a lack of resources is blamed. There is no money to pay for a dedicated support person or for specialised equipment or adaptations.
But this approach is not inclusive: it regards the disabled child as separate from other children.
Inclusion should include everybody. It should not be the sole responsibility of one member of the team. Inclusion is fundamental to good practice and therefore general indicators for inclusion are required to guide the setting towards practice, which is not solely about disabled children but about all children. Such indicators would demonstrate the features of inclusive provision. They'd provide benchmarks whereby organisations can measure how they are doing.
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