Inclusive Education Webinar hosted by: The International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IASSIDD)
Over the course of the last decades, several countries around the world have taken serious efforts to make their school systems more inclusive. Fuelled by international policy papers, as the Salamanca Statement (UNCESO 1994) and the activism of the Disabled People’s Movement, governments from all continents
have tried to re-organise structures and practises in the field of education. Signing the UN-Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD, 2006), several states have affirmed the right of all children to education – in an inclusive system. These processes have led to a global progress in expanding access to education (UNESCO 2017). Despite these efforts, many children with disabilities are still refused participation in education or are being schooled in segregated educational settings. The labels intellectual disability and/or developmental disability seem to remain some of the most powerful barriers, disabling children to participate in mainstream school settings.
Inclusive Education and Students with Intellectual Disabilities: Lessons from Asia, Europe and the United States – 24th November
Facilitators: Tobias Buchner/ Deirdre Corby
Topics and Speakers
Inclusive Education in Asia: Insights from Country case studies
Rhonda Faragher (University of Queensland, Australia) & Lucy Miranda (Manila, Philippines)
The State of Inclusion with Students with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in The United States Karrie Shogren & Jennifer Kurth (University of Kansas, USA)
Same progress for all? Inclusive Education, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Students with Intellectual Disabilities in European Countries
Tobias Buchner (University Teacher College Upper Austria, Austria & Joanna Smogorzewska University of Warsaw, Poland)
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