Including a Student with Multiple Disabilities and Visual Impairment in Her Neighborhood School
- 1 September 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness
- Vol. 87 (7) , 268-272
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0145482x9308700707
Abstract
This article begins with a literature review of main-streaming students with multiple disabilities and visual impairment in general schools, stressing the importance of opportunities for peer interaction that are prevalent in regular settings. It then describes a program carried out with a 5-year-old student attending her neighborhood school in Auckland, New Zealand. Comments of the people involved in the program, including the principal, the teachers, the teacher's aide, family members, and fellow pupils, are reported, and the success of the program is discussed.Keywords
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