title: Counseling & Diversity
author: Cirecie West-Olatunji
description: Devika Dibya Choudhuri is a licensed professional counselor with more than 15 years of experience working with clients individually, as well as in couples, families, and groups. An associate professor at Eastern Michigan University, she serves as a trainer, coach, consultant, and frequent presenter on diversity and ethical issues. She also teaches in the graduate counseling program in the community counseling field in courses such as cross cultural counseling, advanced multicultural counseling, counseling skills, group work, couple and family, and counseling women. Her research and publications have focused on the areas of multicultural client issues, counselor supervision, and pedagogy. Clinically, Dr. Choudhuri specializes in cross cultural and diversity issues, as well as trauma, assault, and abuse. She carries the National Certified Counselor credential as well as the Approved Clinical Supervisor. Her clinical experience has been in agency and university settings, working with refugee populations, sexual assault and abuse survivors, and immigrant and multicultural populations. She received her master's in counseling from the University of Vermont and her Ph.D. in counselor education and supervision from Syracuse University.
zlib_text: Edited by David Phelemero Kumwenda 2021 
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  INTRODUCTION TO 
  INCLUSIVE/SPECIAL 
  EDUCATION 
   
   
   
  
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  A. 
  DEDICATION 
  This book is dedicated to all people who used to wonder why everything is “different” today, and 
  then figured out the reasons. The people who fought for equal rights and justice influenced by 
  beliefs that people can best develop themselves only by attempting to contribute to the general 
  welfare of their common environment, by developing a superior outlook for studying any 
  discipline, and by developing better partners and competitors to make the world a better place for 
  all. 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
  
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  B. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 
  Acknowledgements must be to God the Almighty the living and everlasting Yahweh. My Mother 
  Mrs. Lilian Kuffasse Dindi Kumwenda because she bore and took care of us her Children (David, 
  Allan, Jenifer, Wanangwa & Chinthambwira) to reach this far. Life without nurturing and suppor