Special Needs
Inclusive Education
Special Needs
The term ''special needs'' can be found in various
contexts and have different connotations. What is special
needs? According to the dictionary, special needs are
areas where individuals may require accommodations or
specialized services to participate in everyday activities.
The special needs definition encompasses physical,
emotional, intellectual, and sensory impairments.
Models of Disability
The moral/religious Model
The Biomedical/ individual
Model
Functional/ Rehabilitation
Model
The Social Model
Right Based Model/ Twin
track approach
Models of Disability
Right based
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What is special needs education?
William butler yeast, in the meantime ;have said
that “education is not the filling of pail , but the
lighting of a fire”(litky & grabelle). Eduaction
plays a fundamental role in human’s personal and
social development, given that man is both and
individual and a social being; one simply can not
think of the human person outside the context of
a community.
Historically, special education has been as “ an
attempt to increase the fairness of universal
public education for extraordinary abilities in
learning”
Why inclusion?
Inclusive education is an educational
practice that places students with
disabilities in the general education
classroom along with typically
developing children under the
supervision and guidance of a general
education teacher. It takes root in
special needs education and is
anchored on the philosophy that every
child has an inherent right to be
educated equally with his peers, no
matter how different he or she may
appear to society.
Laws of Inclusive Education
“Philippine Laws for PWDs (Pangalangan & Litong 2014
• BP 344 (1983) – Accesibility Law
• RA 7277 (1992) – Magna Carta For Disabled Persons
Equal rights and privilege of PWDs on
employment, education, health ,
telecommunications, auxiliary social services,
assecibility,political and civil rights
• Administrative Order 35 (2002) – National Ddisability
prevention and Rehabilitation (NPDR Week) every 3rd
week of July
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• Guidance in the admission of students with disabilities in
higher education and post- secondary institutons in the
Philippines (2004)
• RA 9442 (2007) – Amendment of the RA 7277 (Priviledge
to PWDs
o 20% discount privileges to PWDs
o Change name from “Magna Carta for Disabled
Persons”
o Added a clause on deliverance from public
ridicule and vilification.
• NDC Administrative Order No. 001, s. 2008 – Guidelines on
the issuance of PWD ID cards relative to RA 9442
• RA 10070 (2010) – Amendment of RA 7277 (Implementation
of programs and services for PWDs in every province, city
and municipality – PDAO Law)
• RA 10366 (2013) – Accesible polling place for PWDs and
senior citizens.
• Proclamations No. 688, s. 2013 – Declaring the period of
2013 – 2022 as the Philippine decade of “mak the rights
real” for PWDS
• RA 10524 (2013) – Amendment of RA 7277 ( expanding the
positions reserved for PWDs )
o 1% all government agencies , offices, corps shall be
reserved for PWDs
o Private companies with over 100 employees are
encouraged to reserved at least 1% for PWDs
• RA 10754 (2016) – An act expanding the benefits and
privileges PWDs
o Exemption of VAT on the following sale of goods and
services
o Inclusion of funeral services
• Civil Services commission MC No. 20, s. 2017 – express lane for
PWDs in all commercial and government establshments
• RA11228 (2019) – Amendment of RA 7277
ALL PWDs shall be automatically covered by national
health insurance program (NHIP) of the philhealth and that the
PhilHealth shall develop exclusive package for PWDs that will
address their specific health abd development needs.
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