Abstract
Integration is an ideal approach for educators and parents but this hope has seldom been realized because of some people's misunderstanding. We should accept that disability is not an excuse for separating people. All people, either able or disabled, are entitled to use the divine affluence In Iran including the excluded is viewed as an ethical and human concern. At the university of Isfahan many kinds of special students are studying in various branches and levels. Special and regular students, as I investigated, have rich estimate to each other. Various kinds of services are donated to them. I propose some suggestions. They are workable alternatives and can pave the way for integrating special and regular students in the same educational institutions. First, the issue of including the excluded should be a permanent, and not occasional, concern for educators. Second, a re-shifting of principles in some educational policies is required. Third, words and terms used for exceptional individuals should imply vitality. Fourth, a great part of teacher training programmes on all educational levels should contain special students/issues. Fifth, much effort should be made to revise and or develop a curriculum that is appropriate and beneficial for both regular and special students. Finally, educational systems should be attentive to their real role as great equalizers. The issue of special students, I think, is a humanitarian concern that calls all of the clear consciences. If, as Saldi says, we have no sympathy for the troubles of others, we are unworthy to be called by the name of a man.
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