In 1994, these articles from the Salamanca Statement were adopted by representatives of 92 countries at a UNESCO
conference in Salamanca, Spain. According to Ainscow and César (2006), this statement is the most significant international
document that has ever appeared in the field of special education. The Salamanca Statement explicitly endorses the idea
of inclusive education, as the quotations above show. Inclusive education can be defined as educating children with special
educational needs in regular schools, instead of in special schools. To put it another way: ‘inclusion involves keeping special
education students in regular classrooms, and bringing support services to the child rather than bringing the child to support
services’