The article discusses the features of the implementation of an inclusive approach to educational organizations in Russia, the author analyzes difficulties that children with disabilities face daily and emphasizes the importance for these children to realize that they can communicate on equal grounds with healthy children, to overcome the desire of self-isolation and ascertain its physical potential. The role of physical education in the system of social protection of handicapped students is described, the author identifies the difficulties that specialist in physical education face while working in conditions of inclusive education. The results of a study aimed at identifying the attitude of future specialists of physical education to work in conditions of inclusive education are given.