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Article: Everyday experiences of mothers and early childhood professionals negotiating an inclusive early childhood experience in the Australian context. (Far From Ideal).(Report)
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- Topics in Early Childhood Special Education
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- March 22, 2008
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The literature on inclusion in early childhood settings suggests that accessing quality or intervention-oriented early childhood education and child care is beneficial for the social, cognitive, behavioral, and motor development of children with disabilities (Diamond & Carpenter, 2000; McGee, Morrier, & Daly, 1999; Odom, 2000). However, as numerous studies have shown, such educational outcomes are not achieved by simply enrolling children with disabilities into mainstream settings alongside their typically developing peers (Brown, Odom, Li, & Zercher, 1999; Hamilton, 2005; Hestenes & Carroll, 2000; Hundert, Mahoney, Mundy, & Vernon, 1998). The literature broadly ...