This article gives an account of the way an opportunity has been taken to draw together ideas for a curriculum for the common school and beyond, during the writing of a new edition of the "Index for Inclusion; developing learning and participation in schools" (Booth & Ainscow, 2011). I discuss the way thinking about the curriculum…

This article looks at two concepts in the British 1993 draft Code of Practice concerning students with special needs: the concepts of a "continuum of needs" and a "continuum of provision." Issues involved in connecting the two continua are addressed, including whether service delivery decisions should be based on severity of…

The last of 16 booklets designed for use in an Open University course on the education of handicapped students in the United Kingdom, this text focuses on integration and ways it might be pursued. Questions are posed for the student to answer concerning various aspects of integration, including the amount of centralization needed, the effects of…