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• Increasing the inclusion of young children with disabilities with typically developing children sometimes faces barriers to adoption and implementation. One barrier identified by administrators relates to cost.
• This paper examines the costs of different models of inclusion and traditional special education preschool programs in five local education agencies in five states.
• Results show somewhat lower costs associated with more inclusive models as compared to traditional forms of special education provision on both an annual and per hour basis.
• Data on who bears the cost show that for school districts, inclusion is less costly than traditional models.

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