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What is Integration in Special Education
The idea of integration was developed as the opposite of segregation. It demanded an end to the practice of educating children in special schools’ segregated environments and pushed for their education to be provided in ordinary classrooms. In this sense, integration was previously the phrase used to describe a handicapped child’s effective integration into a regular school when they were predominantly educated in separate special schools.
This new integration concept aimed to accomplish the integration (association) of the impaired kids with the non-disabled population of their peers rather than exposing them to a kind of isolation by placing them in separate special schools for their education. Thus, it may be reasonably referred to as an appropriate step in integrating children with disabilities and exceptionalities into the mainstream, i.e., the setting and opportunity for receiving education and training alongside the population of non-disabled peers in the normal schools.
When it comes to education, integrating a handicapped kid into a regular classroom setting entails providing them with a concurrent education alongside a class of children without disabilities. The challenged youngster has more opportunities to interact with his non-disabled peers in games, sports, and other activities in such a setting.
Assimilation of a handicapped kid into a group of non-disabled students is the goal of integrated education, which also provides an opportunity to help the child become as independent as feasible.
