According to the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, approximately 1 in 6 children in the United States have developmental disabilities which include physical, learning, ...

What is Inclusion in the Classroom and Why is it Important? Inclusion in the classroom means that all children, no matter their racial, religious, or ethnic background, gender, learning style, or ...

July is Disability Pride Month, a time dedicated to recognizing and honoring people with disabilities while celebrating the valuable contributions they make to communities across the country.

Back-to-school season is often filled with a mix of excitement and anxiety for students. While this is true for all students, including those who are neurotypical, neurodiverse, or disabled, ...

The Inclusive Education Act promised that children with disabilities would no longer have to beg for a place in school. But now we must confront a harder question: once a child is admitted, what ...

A prominent professor of special education is about to ignite a fierce debate over a tenet of his field, that students with disabilities should be educated as much as possible alongside their peers in ...

Mrs. Alvarez starts her day at 7:30 a.m. with the usual bustle: backpacks thump onto the floor, lunch boxes are unpacked, and a stack of folders marked IEP—short for Individualized Education Program, ...

This story about special education classrooms was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Terri Joyce believed ...

In many organizations, disability and neurodiversity inclusion are often treated as if they’re the same thing as accessibility and accommodations. This does not work for disability inclusion – ramps ...

UB’s Reasonable Accommodation Policy provides a procedure for requesting accommodations for a disability or medical condition. Students may begin the accommodation process by contacting Accessibility ...