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What Attributes Do Educators Use To Assign Early Childhood Special Education Students To A Federal Classroom Setting (Inclusion Vs. Non-Inclusion, Elise Kosloski

Culminating Projects in Child and Family Studies

Inclusion and non-inclusion are two very common models used in the early childhood education

profession. Given the two models, it is unclear currently how to decide what setting would best

benefit a student. Is non-inclusion a better option for a student with social-emotional deficits?

Or perhaps they would better benefit from typical peer models in an inclusive setting. The

following research was designed to survey early childhood educators and ask what

qualifications, strengths, and deficits would lead them to place a student in an inclusive early

childhood classroom. With a small number of respondents, data showed that many educators

seemed …