Acknowledgements
This book would not have been possible without the willingness of contributors to share their perspectives based upon their experiences of inclusive education for students with intellectual disability within university settings. We thank them for sharing the rich fabric of how they were involved in making inclusion a reality within tertiary education for their students, their family members, for the university community and now for you, the readers. It has been a long journey in bringing the book to fruition, and we thank all contributors for their patience in supporting us to build an international picture of where the movement for inclusion for students with intellectual disability within university settings has evolved to globally. Through the lens of each contributor we have learned much about the reality and challenges to sustain such inclusion at the tertiary level. In particular, we wish to acknowledge those authors who have written, some for the first time, about their own journey as a student within the respective university settings. As a group, they are trailblazers in paving the way for other students who previously would have been denied a university experience.
In editing the book, we wish to thank the team at Brill | Sense for their wise counsel, colleagues at the Centre for Disability Studies, the School of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney and the University of South Australia for their support, ideas and encouragement in sharing our belief that it was important to document inclusion at the tertiary level to secure its place as part of the inclusion spectrum. A special acknowledgement must go to Ralph Bonati for his countless hours reading drafts and providing constructive feedback and similarly to Peta Hurst for her formatting of drafts of the manuscript.