[senco-forum] Any known research

Hi Sanja
  Here in Cornwall we have always been pretty inclusive.  Something to do with not building special schools in the first place!
  However, there are always new pupils to introduce into school.  I find it all works best if we have the parents' permission to talk about the child to their peers.  We also need to explain what certain conditions are to everyone without naming names.  I also do a whole school assembly about disability each year.
  The key thing for inclusion is to have the school staff on board.  We constantly model appropriate behaviour towards pupils with all sorts of disablity - and we can celebrate their successes too.
  I couldn't give you any research evidence in my school but there is plenty about.  Do you belong to NASEN?  It produces professional research papers on subjects such as this.  http://www.nasen.org.uk/ 
  Amanda
  Secondary SENCO
  Cornwall

Sanja Malic <sanjamalic at hotmail.com> wrote:
  Hello everyone,

I am on senco forum for over a year now and I can thank you all as I have 
learnt a lot from it.
One of my friends is working on PhD theses and is looking for any 
information on how other children in the class accepted and reacted to 
special needs children when they are included. We are at the beginning of 
inclusion process in Bosnia and every information is valuable. How was it 
when they first started mainstreaming schools? The difference in old 
fashioned schools and inclusive schools - again focusing on all the other 
children.

Thank you in advance.

Sanja

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Amanda
Secondary SENCO
Cornwall