The Cost of Retrofitting
- Shelley Moore
- Jun 26
- 1 min read
Designing for all from the start
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The Cost of Retrofitting: Designing for all from the start
Inclusion for students with disabilities requires a thoughtful design of educational experiences that enhance learning outcomes for all students. This concept parallels the architectural process of constructing a building: both require intentional planning and design to ensure accessibility and functionality for anyone.
In Dr. Shelley Moore’s Five Moore Minute video, “The Cost of Retrofitting” she highlights the difficulties of modifying existing systems to be inclusive. Retrofitting an educational environment is akin to adding elevators to a building after it has been built, often resulting in costly and insufficient solutions. Instead, we must design for variability in our educational frameworks from the outset.
The Construction of Inclusive Education
To create an inclusive educational environment, we can use a building metaphor to think about the steps needed to construct inclusion, that is, community engagement, planning, design, materials, building, and maintenance.
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