Inclusion; the way forward? According to the World Health Organization (2011), there are more than 1 billion people with disabilities in the world, and this number is increasing. Many of these people will be excluded from the normal situations that we, “the ordinary,” experience in everyday life. One of these experiences is our right to education. Article 42 of the Irish Constitution states that the State guarantees free primary education up to the age of 18, but is this the right to a good education? Why should being born with a disability, something that is completely out of your control, automatically limit your chances of success and cut you off from the rest of society by being considered "weaker" by people who have probably never met you? Given that approximately 15% of the world's population has disabilities, why is society unable to fully accept people with disabilities? To break this notion, we must start with inclusion. The EPSEN Act (2004) defines inclusion as the intention to provide persons with special educational needs with the same right to avail themselves of and benefit from appropriate education as their peers who do so. do not have such needs. The idea of ​​inclusion is far from new, but still struggles to find a foothold in the Irish education system. However, it can be said with certainty that the segregation of normal and special students is being eliminated, with a decline in special schools since the early 1990s (Pijl, Meijer, Hegarty 1997). Inclusion has become increasingly important in education in recent years, with the Education for People with Special Educational Needs Act passed in 2004 to ensure equality in our system. In summary, inclusion is the idea that there are no children... in the center of the paper... evaluating their teaching. Parents and students themselves are crucial in this process. They allow IEPs to adapt to the student and for goals to be specific and as clear as possible. To enable students to develop fully, their individual needs must be considered and addressed. Inclusion not only benefits the student, but parents, teachers, school and community. It is about understanding additional needs rather than ignoring them and giving the student all the opportunities that students without difficulties/disabilities have available to them. Inclusion is a basic human right for all students, and our differences are what make us unique. These differences should be embraced, not avoided. A student with additional educational needs may very well be capable of great things, but only if we, the educators, give him the opportunity to be so. Inclusion is the way forward