LESSON 1: HISTORY OF SPECIAL EDUCATION

• Special Education


  Refers to the education of persons who are gifted or talented and those who have physical, mental, social, or sensory impairment and cultural differences that require modification of the school curricula, programs, and special and physical facilities to enable them to develop themselves to their maximum capacity
• Quezon City High School was inaugurated for gifted students


  1949
• School for Mental Retardation (Welfareville Children’s Village, Mandaluyong)


  1927
• School for orphaned children with disabilities


  1953
• Insular School for the deaf in Manila (Philippine School for the Deaf)


  1907
• Marked the start of training program for school administrators on the supervision of special classes held at UP

  1965
• Private colleges and universities started to offer SPED courses on GSC

  1960
• 1800s - deviant children were considered handicapped, retarded, incorrigible, truant, socially maladjusted and their basic actions were in conflict with the law, whether considered either dangerous, violent, or harmless and mild in nature
• School for crippled children at southern island in Cebu

  1980
• People with disabilities were given access to public school classes

  After 1990
• Latin America - Before 1978 - little action was taken to educate children with disabilities in Columbia. Children are left home without much interaction with the outside world
• The interest to educate Filipino children was expressed by Fred W. Atkinson


  1902
• The Philippine association for the deaf is established


  1926
• Deaf were integrated in regular class


  1956
• Special education was researched across the country and education programs were created

  1985
• National Orthopedic Hospital School for Crippled children and youth

  1942
• School for children with hearing impairment - Elsie Gaches Village


  1950
• UP started training teachers for children with behavioral problems

  1970
• 2 million - defective individuals (1800s); diseased or weak minds they were in society making criminals
• 19th and early 20th century - individuals began to realize the importance of public education for the disabled individual
• DEC teachers’ scholars for blind teachers started training in Philippine Normal University


  1962
• DANE - Departmento Administrativo Nacional de Estadistica
• Plan Nacional para el Desarrolo de la Education Especial aimed to create a national diagnosis of special education and initiate programs for individuals with disabilities
• The Period of Planning

  1978 to 1990
• Periods of History of Special Education in Columbia

  • The Period of Neglect
  • The Period of Diagnosis and Planning
  • The Emergence of Special Education
• Ministry of Columbia implemented a national plan for the development of special education called "Plan Nacional para el Desarrolo de la Education Especial"


  1995
• Law 115 was put into action by the Ministry of Education to introduce special classes in public schools that include students with disabilities


  1994
• School for the Deaf, UK, Edinburgh (1760) was founded by Thomas Braidwood and provided education for visually impaired people starting in Edinburgh and Bristol in 1765
• Columbia entered into the Convention of Rights of Persons with Disabilities, an agreement among the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)


  2011
• The Columbian government made financial strides in special education in 2015 with $12.3 million
• Article 11 of Law 1618 was passed, stating that the Ministry of Education will define the policy and regulate the scheme of education for persons with special educational needs, promoting educational access and quality under a system based on inclusion in the educational services


  2013
• Institut National des Juenes Aveugles, Paris (1784) was the first special school in the world and the first school to teach blind students