ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the disabled child's participation rights within inclusive compulsory formal education. The chapter begins by discussing disabled child's rights in education as set out in the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). It then focuses on the extent to which disabled children in Europe have access to inclusive education. This is followed by an analysis of participants in education-related decisions, and whether it is educational authorities, parents or the children themselves. The chapter then focuses on the Individual Education Programme (IEP) as the single most important tool in inclusive education, and a tool which lends itself totally to the inclusion of the disabled child in the decision-making process. The chapter then ends with a presentation of arguments why the disabled child's participation rights in education are crucial.
