Positive effects of the placements of students with intellectual developmental disabilities in typical class

This paper is aimed at summarizing the results of the comparison of five different papers published on this journal. Those papers analyzed how including scholars with intellectual and developmental disabilities in a typical (instead of special) class might have effects on psychological development, academic and adaptive performances. Results are the following: a typical class fosters a better psychological development (particularly from a social point of view since their inclusion promotes, for example, friendship and social acceptance), higher school performances, better adaptive abilities. The present contribution considers also what characteristic typical class should have to offer an excellent inclusion model.