Today's schools use two different techniques in helping children that are mental handicapped or have a learning disability. Schools across the world either have a special education class, where the schools take the mental handicapped or learning disability or place them in a class by themselves. This is where an exceptional child learns about every subject being taught to them with other exceptional children. This technique is alright, but it isolates the exceptional children from the other children. Which gives that child a sense of being outcast and inferior. The other technique is called mainstreaming. Where the school takes the exceptional child and places he or she in a regular class for the majority of the day. This technique not only gives the child a sense of belonging it also gives the child a sense of hope in beating his or hers learning disability. This paper will explain what a learning disability, what mainstreaming is, why it is important for young children and finally tell a story about my own personal experience with mainstreaming.

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Now that people what mainstreaming is, here is why it is so important to have mainstreaming in the schools as early as Preschool through Elementary school. When the schools use mainstreaming in preschool it reduces the rejection and alienation that compound the burden of the handicapped person or learning disability child is to recognize that all children are different, that each child is unique, and to bring to bring together in natural setting (day-care centers, schools, playgrounds) from the earliest years onward children called exceptional and children called normal to learn from each other and to nurture and respect for each other (Hobbs, 1975). In Preschool and Elementary Schools children are getting their first taste of what the whole school experience is all about. If a child is labeled exceptional and has to be separated from the other students, that child will feel left out or alone. This is a very bad stimulus for the child and the exceptional child starts to hate school and refuses to go. This situation is can and does happen in schools that do not use the mainstreaming technique to teach all the children. Another reason why mainstreaming is so important in early childhood education is that the teachers and administrators at the schools can teach all students to respect and love each other. Just because someone is different then someone else in learning ability, race or religion doesn't mean the child can't learn from the situation and have a better knowledge of other children and what they are about.

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