11:22 a.m.
Dr. Lopez from University of Minho in Portugal shared this one he just published- so
thought to send along- in this case- Portugal terminated special education and replaced it
with Full Inclusion- Over the last 40 or so years they have moved from enacting special
education to partial inclusion to “full” inclusion- “all mean all”, “all the time,” for
“all disability groups” phasing out most of the special education services or reallocating
them- and so many of us are following the developments to see how it turns out- as that
is the move here in the US as well- it is not the inclusion part- it is the “Full” part
that has so many people worried- we are in an age of extremes, even in special education.
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Mack D. Burke, Ph.D.
Department of Educational Psychology
Applied Behavior Analysis and Special Education Programs
Behavioral Education & Assessment Research (BEAR Lab)
School of Education, Baylor University