ABSTRACT
This chapter explores reframing curricular and instructional modifications to have a greater focus on meaningful social inclusion. Social inclusion is all encompassing. Inclusion in the academic, employment, community, and other domains all have something in common, and that is communication – which is socialization. The chapter describes nine domains of accommodation: size or quantity of information, time, level of support, input, output, difficulty, participation, alternate activity and substitute curriculum. As with Autism, inclusion is also a spectrum of involvement for people with differences and disabilities. However, academic and social accommodations are actually merely extensions of good teaching practice. With greater attention paid to differences in learning styles and social interaction, "regular" education becomes more accessible to a greater diversity of students to the benefit of all involved and society as a whole. What is good for individuals on the Autism spectrum tends to be good for everyone else as well.
