Inclusion of Young Children with Special Needs in Early Childhood Education in the United States: Advantages and Disadvantages
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- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.220105.038How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Inclusion; Primary education; Advantages; Disadvantages; Recommendations
- Abstract
As the significance of inclusion prevalently predominate in recent years, educators and professionals draw their attention to inclusion of students in educational settings in America. Including students with learning disabilities in general educational setting is a relatively debatable topic in the American society. The main goal of this article is to explore the importance of inclusive education for both ordinary and special needs students. It aims to use critical discourse analysis to examine how effectively inclusion is represented among American children in their early years. It also reveals advantages and disadvantages of the inclusive system in various aspects. Reviewing past literature, we find out that inclusion provides equal chances for all students, achieves interdependence among ordinary and special needs students, aid special needs students in adapting to society easier, and demonstrates diversity in teaching methods. However, we also discover that inclusion tends to cause problems like peer reject, curricular inflexibility, immaturity in system construction, as well as deadlock among teachers. At the end of this article, we provide relatively feasible recommendations for further improvements in the practices of inclusive system in education.
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- © 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Siyu Chen AU - Qixuan Huang AU - Zhiyi Liu AU - Haijing Wang PY - 2022 DA - 2022/01/17 TI - Inclusion of Young Children with Special Needs in Early Childhood Education in the United States: Advantages and Disadvantages BT - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Social Development and Media Communication (SDMC 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 195 EP - 202 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220105.038 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.220105.038 ID - Chen2022 ER -