Key Lessons Learned About Inclusive Education: summary of the 1996 Schonell Memorial Lecture

Abstract This article summarises some of the primary content presented in the Sixteenth Schonell Memorial Lecture at The University of Queensland on July 29, 1996. The content addressed four major topics related to the education of students with disabilities in general education classrooms with support, including: (a) characteristics of inclusive education, (b) key lessons learned about inclusive education, (c) tools to facilitate inclusion, and (d) the impact of inclusion on students with disabilities as well as their classmates without disabilities, teachers, and families.