How Do Children Benefit from Inclusion?

Chapter 3 How Do Children Benefit from Inclusion? William R. Henninger, IV and Sarika S. GuptaExcerpted from First Steps to Preschool inclusion : How to Jumpstart Your Programwide Plan by Sarika S. Gupta, , William R. Henninger, IV, , & Megan E. Vinh, Brookes Publishing | | 1-800-638-3775 2014 | All rights reservedFOR MORE, go to inclusion , Policy, and Research Dr. Sloane is a director of a university child development center. The school primarily enrolls preschool- age Children of university faculty and staff and occasionally Children of families in the com-munity. Currently, the center does not include Children with disabili-ties; however, many of the staff have expressed an interest in doing so for several reasons. Supportive staff members think inclusion is a natural extension of an early childhood philosophy that embraces diversity and celebrates individual differences. They also think that, as the university center, they should be modeling the very practices their field supports.

2011). As early childhood educators, we aim to help preschool-ers develop and acquire the skills they need to be successful in school as well as later in life, and we do this through thoughtfully designed environments and intentional, structured interactions that scaffold children’s growth and learning (e.g., Epstein, 2008;

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