It Isn't Inclusion Without Peers: Supporting Students With and Without Disabilities to Learn Together

Peer-mediated interventions benefit all students in the classroom.

Peer-mediated interventions are a category of practices in which students without disabilities provide academic and social support to classmates with disabilities in inclusive classrooms, cafeterias, and on playgrounds. These support strategies are shown to have positive effects on academic, interpersonal, and social development—not only for students with disabilities, but also for their classmates who serve as peer supports....