Supporting Inclusive Education Worldwide | Special Education Resources Inclusive Schools Network. Special Education Inclusion. Making It Work When the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) mandated that children with disabilities be educated with children who do not have disabilities, education in the United States changed. Education World writer Wesley Sharpe, Ed.D., looks at the characteristics of effective inclusion. Included: Answers to such questions as "How does inclusion benefit kids who have disabilities? " "A generation ago, few classrooms in the United States included students with disabilities. As late as the middle of the 1970s, an estimated 1 million kids with disabilities didn't even attend school," reported a May 1999 NEAToday Online cover story, "Inclusion Confusion.
" For disabled children who did attend school, special education usually meant placement in a special class or a special school. Special education changed with the passage of the 1975 Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and its 1997 amendments. Has the student been involved in the selection process? Home - National Parent Partnership Network. Home | UK children's charity | National Children's Bureau.