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• Inclusion can benefit students without disabilities emotionally and socially - the students gain friendships and interact with students with disabilities -the students are able to see the similarities between themselves -takes the fear out of the unknown about people with disabilities

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• Inclusion can benefit students without disabilities academically -they are still being held to the same expectations -they are able to work with peers - the pace of learning is the same

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• Inclusion supports students with disabilities through social and emotional development -by gaining social skills -friendships -communication skills

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• Inclusion supports students with disabilities academically - spending more time in the classroom - modeling behavior in the classroom - being challenged - language/reading skills improve

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• Teachers attitudes and expectations matter -proper training will support teachers and their ability to support inclusion -the teacher must set expectations for their students, because the students have the ability to meet them

This article helped me understand how inclusion supports every student in the classroom. I connected to this article because I was able to get a better understanding as to how and why inclusion is a great thing. I was apprehensive because I thought that maybe students without disabilities would not be challenged as much as they need to be. However, I learned that inclusion does not take the challenge out of the classroom, but only allows more people to be challenged.

Including students with disabilities allows for so much growth not only academically, but also socially and emotionally. I think it is so cool how not only are students with disabilities growing socially, but as well as students without disabilities. Some students are learning everyday social skills, and some are learning about how others live and the similarities between them.

I believe this will take the fear out of some students, because when students with disabilities are separated, the fear of the unknown is created. Separating students creates a division, and a difference between the students. However, when you take that away the students are able to learn about each other and live a life together.

I did not experience inclusion in my school, however I believe I will be seeing a lot more of it soon. The research shows that inclusion does not disturb learning in any way, but adds to the learning academically and socially.