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Benjamin McCombs

Mr. Ermert

Senior Literature

25 January 2019

Annotated Bibliography

Rudy, Lisa Jo. “Help Special Needs Kids Prepare for Community Inclusion.” ​Verywell Family​,

Verywellfamily, 1 Nov. 2017,

www.verywellfamily.com/help-special-needs-kids-prepare-community-inclusion-415397

In this article, Lisa Rudy explores why community inclusion for people with all types of

disabilities is needed to support them to be successful. She tells us that there are several reasons

why inclusion may be difficult in this day and age. Money, availability of segregated options,

parent preferences, and the needs and anxieties of everyone else are all examples of why it may

be difficult to provide inclusion to these kids. In summary, this article tells how you can prepare

a kid for community inclusion and what to expect at first by starting with small steps and getting

involved in what they are doing. Practicing with them to prepare them for inclusion and always

having a plan B for them to help them be successful. This article is very helpful for my topic of

helping include kids with special needs because it gives specific details on how to proceed with

them. Some ideas it sparked were to help include them in activities with other kids just like them

so they don’t feel out of place. I can use all this information for my project because it tells me

instruction about how to include kids with special disabilities.

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Mott, J. (2013). Principals' and special education teachers' perceptions of special education

teachers' roles and responsibilities (Order No. 3609522). Available from ProQuest Central

Student. (1497278425). Retrieved from

https://search.proquest.com/docview/1497278425?accountid=172748

In this article, a study focuses on the perceptions of principals and special education

teachers about special education teachers’ roles and responsibilities. The author gives

some historical background to special education and talks about how it has changed since

the civil rights movement through several acts like the Education for All Handicapped

Children Act and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. These are just some of

the few acts that have been implemented into the school system. The Author tells us that

the civil rights movement didn’t just resolve racial tension, but it also involved

segregation of kids with disabilities from normal public schools. They were often denied

rights and neglected in the school system as a whole. The civil rights movement brought

reason to help these kids. This is a great research piece for my capstone project because it

brings some background in how the government tried to include kids with disabilities

inside our school system. This will help me proceed with my project because I know all

about the Acts and Programs put in place.

Vivo, Marcela De. “How Inclusion Can Benefit Special Needs Children Socially.” ​The Social

Express​, 10 Mar. 2014,

thesocialexpress.com/how-inclusion-can-benefit-special-needs-children-socially/.

This article is about the benefits of inclusion and how it can benefit special needs kids

socially. This author provides evidence for us to believe that for special needs kids to
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thrive in the community, they need put in regular classrooms instead of a restricted

environment. The article says that the best way for students with disabilities to learn is by

example not in a secluded classroom just for them. They won’t be prepared for the world

if they aren’t included in daily student life. So many of their life skills would be learned

from those around them that they could carry on into their adult life. This resource will be

a great help to me because my project is about involving kids with special needs with

students that already have learned these skills to help them develop. This gives me a new

understanding of including kids with disabilities to those without and how it can help

them socially. The information I’m mainly going to use are the reasons why inclusion

will benefit special needs kids socially.

Samuels, Christina A. “Students Face Uncertain Paths After Special Education.” ​Education

Week​, Editorial Project in Education, 20 Feb. 2019,

www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2015/06/04/students-face-uncertain-paths-after-special-edu

cation.html​.

In this article, it talks about the future of special needs kids outside of their education

programs in the future. The authors tell us that sometimes families are so consumed in the

daily care of kids with special needs that they don’t have time for anything else in their

lives, and in the past 40 years tells us what changes we need to make for them to thrive in

their future. The article talks about the loss of structure in families as the kids grow from

elementary to high school years. As kids were leaving school they weren’t given the

same rights as they are are in the workforce. With many schools taking a less rigorous

approach to how children are educated, it's hard to gauge how ready special needs kids
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are in the workforce making employment for them harder. This resource is valuable

through my learning stretch because it gives statistics of how special needs kids are doing

right now as they enter the labor force. This can enhance my project by giving me a more

statistical analysis of what special needs kids are doing well in and poorly in within our

community. The info that is usable is are the statistics for kids graduating rates,

employment rates, and wage rates they are being given now. This will tell me there

overall performance and what skills they need to work on in order for them to improve.

Villegas, Tim. “Why Special Education Isn't Working.” ​Think Inclusive​, 22 June 2018,

www.thinkinclusive.us/is-special-education-working/

In this article, the author claims that our current special education system isn’t

working and lacks the resources to know where to start. After reviewing many studies about the

positive and negative effects of inclusion, the author proposed that exposing special ed students

to general education would only benefit them academically. This article goes in detail about

explaining what outcomes of student were like with and without inclusion. The overall effects of

inclusion seemed “strongly and positively correlated” for better performance in math, reading,

and science. This resource will be valuable toward my learning stretch because it proposes some

ideas about what we should do about it today. This article enhances my project because it makes

clear that special ed and general ed aren’t separate but should be treated as the same. The

information I will use is about how these two forms of education should be considered as one

and how we should abolish “special education”.