There's a small school at the University of Washington where many kids
with developmental disabilities first learn to talk, count and play. The
kids learn these skills in classes with their typically-developing
peers, from birth through kindergarten. KUOW's Ann Dornfeld reports from
the EEU: the Experimental Education Unit.
Pat O'Kell is watching his son Finn's kindergarten class at the EEU from an observation booth with one–way glass.
O'Kell: "If you sit in these booths and watch for a little while,
everyone's sort of struck by which ones are the typical kids, and which
ones are the special needs kids. It gets kinda hard to tell. They all
kinda blend together and they're all just kids to the teachers and to
each other, which is the great thing about inclusion."
About half of the kindergarteners at the EEU have autism or other
disabilities, half of the kids are typically–developing. The students have a wide variety of skill levels, but they learn side-by-side.
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