ABSTRACT
No longer is it seen as appropriate for children with special educational needs to be educated in segregated settings. No longer are such children taught exclusively by special educators. Special education is now the responsibility of every teacher in every school. The past decade or so has seen children with special educational needs being moved out of segregated special schools into special classes or units within regular schools, and out of special classes into regular classes. This process of integration, or mainstreaming, is not only changing the character of special education, but it is also posing one of the most dramatic challenges facing education in general as the twentieth century draws to a close.
