Debunking Myths about Inclusive Education for Students with the Most Significant Cognitive Disabilities (TIES Center Brief #8)
There are many myths about including students with the most significant cognitive disabilities in general education classrooms. This Brief debunks six of them:
- Students with the most significant cognitive disabilities have too many challenges to benefit from inclusion in the general education classroom
- Students with the most significant cognitive disabilities have too many needs for support to be included in the general education classroom.
- Students with the most significant cognitive disabilities need specially designed instruction that is impossible to provide in the general education classroom.
- Inclusion of students with significant cognitive disabilities negatively affects students without disabilities and their teachers.
- Inclusion of students with significant cognitive disabilities requires resources and personnel schools do not have.
- Students with significant cognitive disabilities cannot be included in general education classrooms beyond elementary school grades.