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Disability - Coggle Diagram
Disability
Inclusive Education 
Level playing field: Creating an education where students from varied backgrounds and abilities have equitable access to learning
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Language in special education: Is it more appropriate to say "with a disability" or "disabled?" for example.
If we are trying to "include" students with different needs, are we still encouraging them to be part of the majority group, if so, are we allowing them to be their true selves?
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What INCLUSIVE individual, instructional and institutional practices and pedagogies can we as educators follow and/or introduce to student learning?
Special Education
Acknowledging that there are multiple different categories of special needs in students that may or may not overlap with one another. It is important to not put all persons with exceptionalities into one category
Ontario schools participate with the identification, placement and review committee (IPRC) to recognize the specific exceptionalities of students to facilitate support : :
There are specific classrooms allocated for students with exceptionalities whereas in other situations all students learn together. It is important to know what balance of approaches best benefits each students in terms of both their learning and sense of belonging.
What are the ways in which we as educators can communicate to students in class about the importance of inclusive education without stigmatizing it or avoiding the topic altogether?
Personal Experiences
Volunteering/Work: I later volunteered at an autism centre and worked at an afterschool program with a student with specific needs. I value this experience since I was able to learn a lot about the diversity of autism and specific needs in students.
Beliefs and perspectives: I believe that as a system, if the school can bring about innovative accommodations to students with special needs, they will have an equitable learning experience. It is also important to understand a student's individual needs and try to disrupt the barriers that exist between students
Highschool: In Canada, in high school, I was aware that students with special needs require different forms of support systems and I was able to understand that it is the system that needs to offer them opportunities to learn
Beliefs and Perspectives" Although my perspectives on special needs education changed, I was also aware that students without specific needs tend not to interact much with students with special needs,, which I found to add to the divisiveness in high school
Homeland: As a child, I have interacted with children with special needs and most often than not they were not receiving the support they needed. Most of them did not go to school because they school system did not have the training/resources to support their learning.
Beliefs and perspectives: As a child, I used to believe that all children with special needs cannot be supported by the education. In other words, I believed that they did not have the ability to learn.
Stigma: As educators I also believe that it is important to create awareness about special needs to help destigmatize the harmful/discouraging stereotypes around special needs
Individualized Education Plan (IEP)
A collaborative process used to identify the specific needs of a student with special needs. Through this plan teachers and parents can understand an individual student's goals and objectives
These goals are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time bound
This is a new symbol that represent persons with disabilities, that shows motion, action and independence compared to the former symbol. However, the question lies whether it really captures special abilities fully.