This article, based on interviews with key informants, reports the constitutional and historical background of implications of the inclusion of the disabled in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms on efforts by organizations and persons to adapt the environment to minimize handicapping effects on the disabled in Canada. (Author/DB)

The report examines case law in both Canada and the United States with respect to the integration of exceptional pupils into regular classrooms, with particular emphasis given to three concepts: mainstreaming, least restrictive environment, and maximum benefit. Analysis of American and Canadian jurisprudence finds that all exceptional children…

The 1982 Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees equal protection and equal benefit of the law to all individuals without discrimination "and, in particular, without discrimination based on...mental or physical handicap." This report identifies and clarifies policy-making questions and issues that are arising as educators…

The "ISSS Annual Conference Proceedings" is a peer-reviewed professional publication published once a year following the annual conference. (Individual papers contain references.) [For the 2009 proceedings, see ED504973.]