Abstract
The Council for Exceptional Children (2006), the leading organization for the education of children for special needs in the United States, provides the following definition of inclusion: Inclusion is a term used to describe the ideology that each child, to the maximum extent appropriate, should be educated in the school and classroom he or she would otherwise attend. It involves bringing support services to the child (rather than moving the child to the services) and requires only that the child will benefit from being in the class (rather than having to keep up with the other students).