Early Childhood Inclusive Education in Finland, Sweden and Norway

In Turkey, important steps lately have taken to the early childhood inclusive education. However; studies show that the practices remain generally insufficient. At this point, it is important to see that practices in different countries such as Finland, Norway and Sweden which are successful in international student assessment reports. In this respect, the aim of the study is to examine the characteristics of the early childhood inclusive education in Finland, Norway and Sweden. Findings revealed that early childhood education comes under the local authorities and children with special needs have a legal right to enroll preschool classrooms in all three countries. Early diagnosis remains at the forefront and the proportion of children with special needs included into preschool classrooms remains high in Finland. In Sweden, all areas of teacher education programs have special education lessons. Multidisciplinary are worked in preparing plans of children with special needs in Norway.