Including Samuel

My friend and I are both education majors and are taking the same class with a different teacher. In her class they watched a movie called "Including Samuel". She loved the movie and said I had to watch it.

I was looking around on the internet for articles about inclusion and a pulled up an article about the movie by Pamela Cotant called “School Spotlight: Film Teaches Inclusion of Students with Disabilities”. It was published in the Wisconsin State Journal in 2009. Cotant’s purpose in this article is to educate people on the positive impact of inclusion of students with disabilities has on a classroom and maybe even an entire school. Dan Habib produced the movie. This movie documents the inclusion of his son in a regular education classroom even though his son has cerebral palsy. Habib visited schools and showed the movie to many middle schools and high schools and got a very positive outcome. Since Habib’s son is so successful in fourth grade, he believes that it is due to the friendships he has made in the regular education class.

This is the type of results that teachers, parents, and peers love to see. Inclusion is a very touchy topic and Samuel was fortunate enough to have a positive outcome of the experience.