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I plan to submit this manuscript for publication in The Issue Is of the American Journal of Occupational Therapy. This manuscript discusses current trends of general education teachers and inclusion of students with disabilities placed in the mainstream classroom. Many students with disabilities who receives inter-related services in their local schools also has a general education teacher as their homeroom teacher. There are many teachers who are new to the teaching profession, or changing teaching climate from teaching in private schools to teaching in public schools who struggle with managing students with emotional behaviors in the classroom. There are days when the special education teachers are absent or testing other students and therefore

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