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O livro aborda a problemática da criança com multideficiência nas escolas do ensino regular. Procura clarificar alguns aspectos da educação destas crianças e a importância da sua participação nas actividades normais da escola onde estão inseridos.

OECD Observer: General » Books . ?Attitudes are the real disability?, says Henry Holden, a well-known comedian and advocate for the disabled. Education is clearly important in this respect, but ironically, schools themselves have much to do in how they deal with disabled students. Whether teenagers are confined to a wheelchair or are struggling with epilepsy, dyslexia or depression, getting an education can be a tough test indeed. For the past few decades, schools have taken on increasing responsibility for educating youth with disabilities and mainstreaming them into regular classrooms. Students with Disabilities, Learning Difficulties and Disadvantages , the fourth report in an ongoing OECD series on disabilities and education, takes a practical look at numbers, measuring how a sample of 17 countries provide for students with special needs. The countries surveyed all have, or are currently preparing, laws that ensure full access to education for all students, although with varying degrees of

Attitudes of mainstream teachers towards the inclusion of children with special needs in the ordinary school were surveyed soon after the release of the Green Paper. The survey was carried out in one Local Education Authority in the south-west of England and the sample comprised of 81 primary and secondary teachers. The analysis revealed that teachers who have been implementing inclusive programmes, and therefore have active experience of inclusion, possess more positive attitudes.