Abstract
As disabled people we die for our Inclusion into the main stream schools. So we should also encourage normal children to be integrated with us in order to reduce the stigma and the would-be negative attitude towards us.
A lot of advocacy and lobbying have taken quite some time all over the world in conferences and other places of gatherings of people with disabilities and the main topic has never missed the word inclusion.
In this changing world, it is high time that we should realise that whatever we demand the authority/public to do for us, we should be the pioneers in setting examples.
At this juncture, I would like to encourage fellow disabled and other stake holders of our concerns to always try to establish schools with Integration of children with disabilities and those with none, as this will get rid of the argument that if you want to be included into regular schools, why then do you keep yourselves in special schools with certain annexes. However, this can be done where the type of disability warrants it.
For us in our school project of Action To Positive Change, there is already a spirit of Inclusion of disabled and the abled ones to avoid the already said becoming attitude towards us right from childhood.
It is also worth to mention here that out advocacy and lobbying and setting of examples of our demands and concerns to others, it has enabled the encouragement of educational system in Uganda to Integrate children with disabilities into the main-stream schooling. Also, in the Government policy of Universal Primary Education, children with disabilities are given first priority among the four children with disabilities in the family taken for consideration.
Integrate children with disabilities freely with normal ones as it reduces stigma and prejudices that society would tend to develop towards the children, promotes their encouragement and sense of esteem, worthiness and responsibility and subsequent spectacular ultimate performances to justify that disability is not inability.
In conclusion therefore, if we are to succeed in promotion of the inclusion, we must set examples ourselves in schools that are labelled Special Schools to include in other normal children on integrated basis.
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