Obstacles facing Implementation of Inclusion of SEN students in Mainstream Secondary Schools in Saudi Arabia

In the past children with SEN have been treated as non-equals to regular children. However, with the continued push for equality in many countries, educationalists have realized that there is a need to integrate students with SEN in mainstream schools. Research shows that educating students with SEN in mainstream schools has lots of positive implications in their social and academic development. As such it is important to evaluate the best strategies to employ to ensure that the inclusion of SENstudents in mainstream schools becomes a success. However, numerous factors hinder the inclusion of SEN students in mainstream schools. This project will show how teachers’ negative attitude towards the practice, teachers’ incompetence, lack of adequate physical and human support deter the inclusion of SEN students in mainstream schools. It will also show how other factors such as parents’ attitudes, poor classroom, and school organization, lack of an inclusive curriculum, and assessment strategies, make it difficult to integrate SEN students in mainstream schools.