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Title: The Illusion of Full Inclusion: A Comprehensive Critique of a Current Special Education Bandwagon by James M. Kauffman, Daniel P. Hallahan ISBN: 0-89079-612-2 Publisher: Pro-Ed Pub. Date: 01 August, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $47.14

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)

Rating: 5
Summary: Essential reading
Comment: Sure to be controversial, this important collection of essays challenges the glib assumption that "inclusion" is best for all students. While acknowledging the huge benefits that inclusion holds for some students, the authors put forward the case that for other students, it may have equally huge disadvantages, both educational and social, and that by jumping on the bandwagon of "full inclusion", educationalists are actually seriously failing some students with disabilities.

Instead, the book argues, a range of educational possibilites are needed, so that each student's individual needs can be met most fully, with the goal being inclusion in society as a full and equal participant (which includes the right to be different). The essays include both those attacking the theoretical arguments involved and those which examine the issue with respect to specific disabilities such as autism, learning disabilities and deafness.

As a disabled person whose life was very nearly ruined by my experiences in the "mainstream", I hope that this book may cause some educationalists to think twice before sacrificing the rights of students with disabilities to the cause of "educational correctness".