... Development team meeting sums up what inclusivity means to people involved in the education sector today: An educational system that segregates disabled people is increasingly offensive to all learners. It damages relationships between disabled and non-disabled people. It is grossly ineffective and a waste of our most valuable resource- human beings. We have to be more creative in the way we value and actively encourage difference. More direct action is required to end this educational apartheid. "Change the label- say black instead of disabled and see if anybody would tolerate this kind of prejudice as it is against a disabled person." Hanson J Head Teacher of a Special Needs School Canada (http://wwwnwtdt.com, 2003) Nevertheless, despite nearly four decades of government legislation the international educational establishment is still looking for ways to improve inclusivity and equality of opportunity with regard to the disabled student. Discussion Politically Inclusion certainly seems to be the buzz-word of ...

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