Emily Mondschein, Executive Director at GiGi’s Playhouse Buffalo, and member of the National Down Syndrome Society (NDSS) and Down Syndrome Education International (DSEI) inclusive education working group, explains the application and impact of an educational profile and creating a disability category for Down syndrome:
-Some benefits of and motivations to use the Down Syndrome: Guidelines for Inclusive Education document;
-How inclusion for children with Down syndrome can help with differentiation and learning achievement for all students;
-The critical importance of using evidence-based, research-based information to form educational and life expectations for individuals with Down syndrome;
-How the exclusion of disabled individuals from the earliest stages of education may be related to other instances of exclusion in our communities.
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