ABSTRACT
This chapter explains how integration has emerged and the most important ideas affecting its evolution up to today. Changing assumptions about the nature of special education has many implications for school organization and classroom practices and it often provokes conflicts between different individuals or interested groups. One of the circumstances that make a difference between Spain and other European countries is that after the Second World War, many countries reorganized their educational systems and consolidated a special school system. The chapter analyses the beginning of integration, regulations and the ideas developed. It refers to problems in current integrational practice. The Warnock Report became an important reference and many experts from England came to Spain to explain the English experience in integration. The educational reform requires many resources and it is the main political focus for the Educational Authorities to consider that integration is already developed in the last years and now there is one system for all children.
