Research that Benefits Children and Families—Uplifting Stories

 If I can choose any topic related to early childhood education I would have to select the importance of mainstreaming children who have a disability with those who do not. I feel it is important that young children realize that everybody is different and that it is acceptable to be different. I feel that if a child shows that they are smart in a certain subject and can sit still in a classroom the student should be able to be in the regular education courses. I feel that a study in this particular field would really benefit teachers, children and parents because many times children who have disabilities are in special education courses and are never mainstreamed into the regular education courses. This is a special topic to me because my brother was in special education from kindergarten all the way up to his freshman year in high school. I remember when my brother was in the sixth grade he did not receive a progress report because the teachr never graded his assgnments because my brother was more advanced than his classmates and the teacher was afraid that my brother's level of intelligence would upset the rest of the class. My brother has ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) which affects his attention span, but not his academic ability. When my brother had been a sophomore in high school he had decided to take all regular education courses and had done really well in school. I feel that if he had been forced to stay in special education coures he might not have been as successful.