In Salamanca Spain in June 1994 representatives of 92 governments and 25 international organisations formed the World Conference on Special Needs Education. The organisation agreed a dynamic new Statement on the education of all disabled children, which called for inclusion to be the norm. In addition, the Conference adopted a new Framework for Action, the guiding principle of which is that ordinary schools should accommodate all children, regardless of their physical, intellectual, social, emotional, linguistic or other conditions.

Historical Context:
Historical context can be defined as the political, social, cultural, and economic environment related to historical moments, events, and trends.

High Incidence:
A high rate or range of occurrence or influence of something, especially of something unwanted ;  occurs more commonly.

Low incidence:

 A low ate or range of occurrence or influence of something, especially of something unwanted; occurs infrequently.

Effective leadership:
Effective leadership includes strong character. Leaders exhibit honesty, integrity, trustworthiness and ethics. Strong leadership involves clear communication skills.

To unite or combine. To give or cause to give equal opportunity and consideration. To racial, religious, or ethnic group or a member of such a group. 5: Mainstream Mainstream describes what’s viewed by most people in a society “normal” like the mainstream view that everyone should get married move to the suburbs and have the ideas attitudes, or activities that are shared by most people and regarded as normal or conventional. Aprevailing current or direction of activity or influence To place a student, such as disabled child in a regular school classes. To incorporate in the mainstream School or class for pupils without special needsThe state government has supported greater integration of students with disabilities into mainstream schools. Belonging to or characteristics of the mainstream. Belonging to or characteristics of a principal, dominant or widely accepted group, movement, style etc. Relating to, or characteristics of jazz falling historically between Dixieland and modern jazz, specifically, swing music: compare traditional cause to join the main force, group etc. To place students with disabilities in a regular school class. Related words for mainstream Dominant, normal, average, primary, general, current, regular, common, standards, accepted, conventional, established, popular, predominant, Typical and widespread

IEP/ ILP: an ILP is an Individual Learning Plan (ILP) which will document your child’s intended curriculum and their learning expectations for a reporting period whereas an IEP is an Individual Education Plan. The difference between an ILP and an IEP? The purpose of the ILP is to document the CURRICULUM the student is being provided as opposed to the IEP where the purpose was about the student’s disability and their ACCESS to the curriculum.  The ILP allows for greater scope and ability to document ALL learning areas and skills your child is currently developing.  The ILP will still identify three priority learning expectations.

There are 15 separate Standards, containing 40 Elements. The Standards and Elements are divided into seven Quality Areas. The seven Quality Areas are: 

 Educational program and practice 

 Children’s health and safety 

 Physical environment

 Staffing arrangements 

 Relationships with children

 Collaborative partnerships with families and communities; and 

       Leadership and service management. 

The seven Quality Areas show that good quality involves more than the curriculum and relationships with children and families. Good quality also includes attention to management, staffing, links with the community and other areas of work.