This document discusses different approaches to educating children with special needs: inclusive education, special education, and integrated education. Inclusive education involves educating special needs children alongside their non-disabled peers in a mainstream environment. Special education provides exclusive education to special needs children in separate special schools. Integrated education educates special needs children in mainstream institutions but in separate classrooms exclusively for disabled students. The document outlines some merits and demerits of inclusive and special education.

1. EDUCATION OF CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL
NEEDS

2. INCLUSIVE EDUCATION
SPECIAL EDUCATION
INTEGRATED
EDUCATION

3. INCLUSIVE
EDUCATION
Inclusive education is
providing education to
specially abled students
along with normal
students and by providing
facilities and normal
atmosphere as given to
the normal students

4. MERITS OF
INCLUSIVE
EDUCATION

5.  Creates confidence in differently abled children
inclusive education helps to realize one’s own
importance in the society.Differently abled children
sees themselves as a part of this society and they
have their own capacities. It helps to overcome
inferiority complex.

6. Creates ability to follow social rules and
regulations
By mingling with the normal students differently
abled children gets opportunities for knowing some
rules and regulations that should follow in a society.
i.e, it helps to learn some social manners.

7. Helps to develop their abilities
By mingling with normal students, differently abled
children develops their own abilities and
capacities.inclusive education provides them to
involve in all activities like a normal child.

8. Creates empathy or positive
attitude towards differently
abled children in the minds of
normal pupil
By giving education for
differently abled children along
with normal students, normal
students gets a lot of
experiences with them and they
get opportunities to interact with
them. By mingling with such
students they have empathy and
sympathy towards them.

9. Some other merits of inclusive education are :
•Students can be integrated socially with their
peers.
•They can create long-lasting friendships that
would not be otherwise possible. These
friendships can give them the skills to navigate
social relationships later on life.

10. Specific attention
can’t be given to
each type of
disability
Curriculum is not
on the basis of
interests of
differently abled
children
Differently abled
children are
unable to follow
strict time
schedule
Absence of
specially trained
teachers and
learning
materials
Tendency of
ridiculing and
insulting by the
normal students Demerits of
inclusive
education

11. SPECIAL EDUCATION
Special education is
providing education for
specially abled students
in an exclusive manner.
A special school is a
school catering for
students who have
special educational
needs due to severe
learning difficulties,
physical disabilities or
behavioral problems

13. Specific attention can be given to each type of
disability
i.e, in special schools, specific human and material
resources are there to provide education on the basis
of disability

14. Curriculum can be designed on the
basis of disabilities of the students

15. There would be
less ridiculing or
mocking by other
students

16. Time schedule can be decided on the basis
of disability

17. In special schools,there is specially trained
teachers.

18. Special schools make
students away from the
normal school.Such
schools force students to
live in unreal world.
It destroys the confidence of
the children as well as
parents.Students remain
dependent forever.Some
students may remain not
self-reliant
Normal students see them
as disabled or rare
creatures.
Students can’t get
opportunities to
communicate with normal
ones.so the process of
socialization does not
occurs.
Demerits of special
education

19. It is a system of providing
formal education for
differently abled students
in the main stream
institutions,but in separate
classrooms exclusively
formed only for differently
abled children.
INTEGRATED EDUCATION