| | NICHCY: Planning For Inclusion, 1 |
 | | Mainstreaming is not necessarily synonymous with inclusion or may be called "partial inclusion." The word implies that the student with disabilities receives a part (often, the majority) of his or her education in a separate, self-contained special education classroom. |
 | | In contrast, "partial" inclusion would refer to the practice of educating students with disabilities in general education classrooms for some portion of their school day, while they spend the other portion of the day receiving instruction in a special education classroom or resource room outside of the mainstream. |
 | | Collaboration between stakeholders and participants is seen as "the key to successful inclusion of all students in a regular class" and "involves a nonhierarchical relationship in which all team members are seen as equal contributors, each adding his or her own expertise or experience to the problem-solving process" (Stainback and Stainback, 1990, p. |
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