Inclusive education with regular students and whit special educational needs in the classroom

For some years, within the field of education, one of the challenges of the Mexican educational system has sought to integrate children with special educational needs (SEND) into the classroom for greater cognitive and socio-affective development, as well as the right they have to receive regular education. However, the school society in several cases is not capable to coexist with people with SEND within the school classroom, that is, integration occurs but going further, through inclusion, is not easy. It is for this reason that this research seeks to know how children with disabilities are included in a regular classroom. To this end, 34 public school classrooms in three municipalities in the south of the state of Zacatecas, Mexico, of all grades at the elementary school, were observed with a research instrument evaluated by expert judges and validated using the SPSS version 20. Although inclusion occurs among classmates, however, curricular adaptations are not inclusive.