An inclusive classroom success story
Including children with disabilities like Council member Megan Reynolds in regular education classrooms offers benefits to both the children with disabilities and their peers. Now taking courses at RhodeIsland College and the Community College of Rhode Island, Megan recently recalled her days as a student in the Providence school system for school social workers, psychologists and administrators at the Charles Fortes Elementary School.
The opportunity to discuss her experience came during a screening of Including Samuel a documentary about a boy with cerebral palsy and his family's struggles to ensure that his disability did not exclude him from participating in all activities at home or in school.
Megan is a member of the Developmental Disabilities Council's Individual and Family Advocacy Committee, which has been screening films about people with developmental disabilities accompanied by discussions facilitated by council members.
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Contact Kathleen Samways if you would like to have the council screen any of the films for your group. (Left to right, above Boy in the World -- pre-school inclusion; Including Samuel-- elementary inclusion; Rory O'Shea Was Here -- young adults transitioning into independent living; or our Universal Design in Learning (UDL) workshop in partnership with the URI/RIC UDL team. These sessions qualify for professional development continuing education contact credit from the RI Department of Education.
