Building inclusive classrooms for students with intellectual disabilities

In the recent past there is a dramatic progress towards access to education with the Right to Education Act (RTE 2010) in India. The Government of India (GoI) could progressively succeed in achieving high enrollment of students in schools across India this is followed with the provision of midday meals, clean toilets, drinking water facility and various other schemes. The grappling issue is the quality in basic education still remains as a dream. Older students from rural government schools of grade Vth to VIIth still fail to read simple sentence in English or perform a three digit division sum in Mathematics (Annual Status of Education Report - ASER 2016). Inclusive education is arduous for students with Intellectual Disabilities (ID) who have gross challenges in learning the mainstream school curriculum. To overcome the barriers of learning, technical strategies of inclusive education should be practiced in inclusive classrooms. The present paper focuses on essential elements of inclusive classroom for students with ID which includes individualized education program, functional curriculum, assistive technology, curricular modifications, and accommodations.