**Abstract**

This work is an overview of the effect of inclusiveness and contemporary teaching and learning environments on students with learning disability. The paper looked at learning disability, inclusiveness in education and contemporary teaching and learning environment from the conceptual perspective as well as the effect of both inclusiveness and contemporary teaching and learning environments on students with learning disability. It was ascertained based on reviewed literature that inclusive education is in tandem with the United Nations Sustainable Developmental Goal (UN-SDG) 4 which stipulates that no child should be left behind in education with special reference to students with learning disability. On the effect of contemporary teaching and learning environment on students with learning disability, as evident, the environment is prepared in such a way to meet the needs of students in this era of information and communication technologies. Indeed, students' learning is supported by access to portable technologies which as noted are beneficial to students with learning disability. Against the backdrops of identified positive impacts of both inclusiveness and contemporary teaching and learning environments on students with learning disability, recommendations that can further enhance the two concepts were made.

**Keywords:** learning disability, students, inclusive education, contemporary teaching and learning environment, information and communication technology

### **1. Introduction**

The emergence and the use of Information and Communication Technology in education is considered an important innovation in classroom teaching-learning and is advocated by many educational policy-makers [1]. This revolution has brought about transformation as schools' facilities are no longer designed in the conventional pattern rather provisions are made to allow for multiple learning skills. To this end, the inclusion of modern technologies in the learning and teaching environment is seen as a bound step towards enhancing functional teaching and learning process.

Against this backdrop teachers are advised to inculcate contemporary technologies while teaching, as they have the potential to transform an outdated educational system [2]. By embracing virtual classrooms and providing access to educational resources, schools can offer personalized instruction and flexibility to their students.

Come to think of it, the intention of creating contemporary teaching and learning environment is to make available space that will promote efficient and effective lifelong learning on the part of the students. The fact is that education today is envisaged as a tool for encouraging learners who are better off to work in a group that brings out their creativity and critic in a complex challenge [3]. As evident, contemporary classrooms are prepared with a view to meeting up with students' needs in this technology driven society. As a result, the spaces allow for flexibility in teaching, team-work among students and independent learning that allows for flexibility, collaboration and personal learning as well as access to global learning resources. In fact with contemporary learning environment, students of all sorts are exposed to the actual utilization of mobile technologies. Imperatively, this development leads to one on one program and its implications for contemporary learning and teaching [4]. Contemporary learning therefore is personalized and provides anytime, anywhere access for students to portable technologies.

The obvious is that information and communication technology has become a global way of live and its inclusion in education is no doubt is a necessity [5]. Regardless of the high premium placed of ICT in the area of enhancing effective teaching and learning the underscore is that not much of it has been applied to bring the needed transformation in teaching and learning in many countries of the world [6] more so, in non-western world a development that has detrimentally affected inclusiveness in education. Inclusiveness in this context, is an undeniable entitlement of every individual to get involve inany communal activity without any form of discrimination. This implies that every student should be given that sense of belonging and support for him or her reach to achieve the desired goal and the reach the full potential [7]. This it is believed is not obtained by students with special cases like learning disability. Learning disabled students in the context of this write-up are those who have adequate mental ability and sensory processes but fail to utilize them to perform [8].

The whole idea behind inclusive education is that everyone should be carried along in that no one should be discriminated upon as a result of strata such as background and learning disability. The whole idea is in line with United Nations –Sustainable Development Goal 4 as it asserted the need to ensuring all inclusiveness for sound education for children with disabilities of any sort as many of them in many nations of the world are alienated from having sound education and some cases, are denied access to schools. The implication is that children with disabilities in many countries have higher propensity of being denied educational training that any other class of children. Since education is the bedrock of both personal and societal development, excluding children with learning disability from conventional educational training is no doubt suicidal and dehumanizing as such children are by so doing denied the right of lifelong learning that will prepare them for adulthood and future societal engagement. It is against this backdrop that this write-up is initiated as to holistically assess the effect of inclusiveness and contemporary learning and teaching environments on students with learning disability. To realize the purpose of this write-up, the author employed document analysis methodology which is the process of reviewing or evaluating documents both printed and electronic in a methodical manner. The document analysis method, like many other qualitative methods, involves examining and

interpreting data to uncover meaning, gain understanding, and come to a conclusion [9]. To this, review of related literature was carried out in which documents related to the topic were gainfully analyzed in line with the topic treated.
