Inclusion; the way forward?According to the World Health Organization (2011), there are more than one billion people with disabilities worldwide, and this number is increasing. Many of these people will be excluded from the usual situations that we, the “ordinary”, experience in daily life. One of these experiences is our right to education. Article 42 of the Irish Constitution states that the State must provide free primary education to the age of 18, but is this the right to a good education? Why would being born with a disability, something completely out of your control, automatically limit your chances of success and cut you off from the rest of society because you are judged "weaker" by people who probably didn't understand you? never met? When approximately 15% of the world's population is disabled, how come society is not able to fully accept people with disabilities? In order to break this notion, we must start with inclusion. The EPSEN Act (2004) defines inclusion as the intention to provide people with special educational needs with the same right to benefit from an appropriate education as their peers who need it. no such needs. The idea of ​​inclusion is far from new but it is still struggling to take root in the Irish education system. However, it can be said with certainty that the segregation between normal and special pupils is disappearing, with a decline in special schools since the early 1990s (Pijl, Meijer, Hegarty 1997). Inclusion has become increasingly important in education. in recent years, with the Education of People with Special Educational Needs Act passed in 2004 to ensure equality in our system. In summary, inclusion is the idea that there is no child......in the middle of the article......and evaluating their teaching. Parents and students themselves play a vital role in the process. They allow IEPs to be tailored to the student and goals to be specific and as clear as possible. To enable students to develop fully, their individual needs must be considered and accommodated. Inclusion not only benefits the student, but also the parents, teachers, school and community. It is about understanding additional needs rather than ignoring them and giving the student every opportunity available to students without difficulties/disabilities. Inclusion is a fundamental human right for all students and differences are what make us unique. These differences must be accepted and not rejected. A student with additional educational needs may very well be capable of great things, but only if we, as educators, give them the chance. Inclusion is the way forward