Curriculum Inclusion for ALL

The Importance of Curriculum Inclusion

There are three main elements to an inclusive school day for a student with disability.  These three elements are physical inclusion, social inclusion, and curriculum inclusion.

Curriculum inclusion is the focus of this resource. There are many benefits for students with disability, their peers and teachers.

Decades of research highlight that academic outcomes are far greater when students with disability learn the same core content alongside their non-disabled peers.

Learning together and talking with each other about ‘what we learned in class today’ at lunch breaks and beyond the school gate, helps students to build social inclusion.

For many parents find it hard to imagine how their child with disability can be fully included in regular classroom learning. They have probably not seen inclusion in action.

This resource is a collection of real-life curriculum inclusion stories shared with CRU by students, families, and educators. All stories are in regular school settings across Queensland.

This resource is not a technical guide to curriculum inclusion. The aim of this resource is to spark interest, curiosity, a desire to learn more and to raise expectations of what is possible when a focus is placed on genuinely including a child with disability alongside classmates in their year level.

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