Do children with disabilities attend the Reggio infant-toddler centers and preschools?
Children with disabilities or “special rights,” as the Reggio educators prefer to say, are among the first to be accepted into the Reggio municipal infant-toddler centers and preschools, along with children from single parent homes and those with limited financial means. In other words, these children are not placed on the waiting lists for attendance but are accepted immediately. In each classroom, there can be one child with “special rights” and every effort is made to support this child’s participation in all of the experiences and activities of the other children in the classroom. An additional supporting teacher joins the two co-teachers in classrooms that include a child with special rights. This supporting teacher works with all of the children in the class, not just with the child with special rights.
