DepEd Orders No. 42, s. 2012, etc

1. ORDERS
POLICY GUIDELINES ON THE PROVISION OF EDUCATIONAL
PROGRAMS AND SERVICES FOR LEARNERS WITH
DISABILITIES IN THE K TO 12 BASIC EDUCATION PROGRAM
No. 044, s.2O21
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CHILD PROTECTION POLICY
No. 040, s.2012
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2. DepEd Order No. 044, s.2O21
 pursuant to Section 3 of Republic Act No. 10533 known as the Enhanced Basic
Education Act of 2013 and Section 8 and 8.2 from its Implementing Rules and
Regulations
 an over-all direction and guidance in the organization, management, and
implementation of appropriate programs, services, and interventions for learners
with disabilities at the different levels of governance in the Department.
 Effective School Year 2021-2022, this policy shall be implemented in public and
private elementary and secondary schools. However, private schools may
contextualize the necessary provisions depending on their needs and contexts.
POLICY GUIDELINES ON THE PROVISION OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS
AND SERVICES FOR LEARNERS WITH DISABILITIES IN THE K TO 12 BASIC
EDUCATION PROGRAM

3. Rationale
To intensify strategies in identifying Filipino learners with disabilities and
provide them with appropriate and relevant educational interventions. The
strategies cover not only identifying learners with disabilities who are already
enrolled in basic education, but also finding and bringing children/persons with
disabilities within the basic education system
In adherence to the Magna Carta for persons with disabilities, Deped
ought to consider the special requirements of persons with disabilities
in the formulation of education policies and programs, including
matters such as school facilities, class schedules, physical education
requirements, among other pertinent considerations
To provide an overall direction and guidance in the organization,
management, and implementation of appropriate and relevant programs,
services, and other educational interventions, at the different levels of
governance in the Department, for learners with disabilities regardless
of their gender, race, culture, ethnicity, religion, and economic status.
Provision of educational programs and services for learners with
disabilities is integral to the right to accessible and quality basic
education and the mandate of DepEd as a duty-bearer to uphold
individual rights.

4. Scope
This policy shall provide an overall direction for
the Special Education (SPED) Program to
ensure the provision of educational services to
learners with disabilities in both public and
private basic education institutions. It covers the
provision of the following: educational services,
assessment, curriculum, teachers, learning
delivery, learning environment and resources,
and roles and responsibilities of the different
levels of governance. DepEd shall ensure that
learners with disabilities are equally provided
with opportunities to fully participate in the K to
12 Basic Education Program.

5. Recognize the rights of learners with
disabilities to inclusive, equitable,
relevant, and quality basic education
by providing them effective and
efficient educational services that will
enable them to become well-
rounded, happy, and productive
individuals
POLICY STATEMENT
Provide a learning environment that
maximizes the holistic development
of learners with disabilities,
consistent with the goal of inclusion,
where accommodations and support
services are available within the
educational system
Provide support services for leaners
with disabilities that shall be
anchored on the principles of
universal participation for equal and
equitable educational services, and
recognition of diverse learners for
responsive and appropriate
educational programs
Provide educational assistance that
facilitates learners with disabilities to
pursue primary and secondary as
well as vocational and technical
education in both public and private
schools
Provide an
environment where
all learners learn
together regardless
of any difficulties or
differences they may
have
Foster a cooperative and
collaborative process
among teachers, school
leaders, parents &
concerned specialists
from other disciplines for
the learners'
development & well-
being.

6. PROVISION OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS AND SERVICES FOR
LEARNERS WITH DISABILITIES (LWD)
Child
Mapping
Services
Monitoring
Assessment Curriculum
Development of
Individualized
Educational Plan (IEP)
Development of learning
goals based on the K to
12 basic education
curriculum.
Resource Room
Services
Additional
support services such as
intervention, therapy
services, tutorial or
remedial.
Identification and
Referral Process
Child-find or child-
mapping activity
Assessment Services
Evaluation and
monitoring of progress
in all domains of
development
Adaptation of the K to
12 Curriculum for LWD
Adaptations shall be
made to access
the K to 12 Curriculum
based on the needs of
the LWDs
Placement
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7. S c i e n c e T e c h n o l o g y E n g i n e e r i n g A r t s M a t h e m a t i c s
Educational Placement
Full Inclusion ln the general educational
classroom
LWDs shall be in full inclusion if they can
cope with all the required
activities with the necessary instructional
support within the general
education classes.
Partial Inclusion with Resource Room
Services
LWDs who shall be in the partial inclusion
are those who can cope with at least
5O7o to 75% of the required activities in
majority of the learning areas
Self-Contained Class
The self-contained class is exclusively for
those LWDs who are diagnosed or
identified to have severe to profound
disabilities. They are the non-graded
LWDs or those who are in the transition
program.

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PROGRAM
DELIVERY
School–Based - learners with disabilities may
receive instruction within the school setting. They
are handled by a Special Education teacher and/or
General Education teacher.
The instructional delivery shall be based on the
learners’; (a) residential distance from the school; (b)
family structure; (c) health condition and/or; (d) other
factors to be determined by the school officials.
Community–based - LWDs may receive learning
instruction within the community in a designated
place. Classes are conducted in community facilities
like Barangay Hall, Spiritual places, or other places
available. A Special Education teacher and/or trained
Community volunteer teaches the LWDs.
Home–based - LWDs receive instruction at home or
at an orphanage structure. A Special Education
teacher together with the family members and or
trained volunteers teach the LWDs.

9. Teachers shall practice the principles of Universal Design for learning
in delivering the K to 12 curriculum.
All teachers shall be considered primary implementers of inclusive
education. As such, they shall possess the proper values,
perspectives, attitudes, as well as competencies that communicate
and reflect inclusion as they address the educational needs of diverse
learners.
Teachers shall implement an individualized education program if and
when necessary and shall also be capacitated in establishing learning
environments that are responsive to learner diversity
Contextualization and modification of curriculum materials shall be
done by all teachers based on the learners’ pace of learning, ability,
interest and context. They should also prepare varied resources to
provide more learning options for learners.
All teachers shall ensure that D.O. No. 4O, s.2Ol2, as amended, & D.O.
55, s. 2Ol3 shall be observed in all programs involving LWDs, with
particular consideration that LWDs may be more vulnerable to
bullying, child abuse & other forms of violence against children.
THE TEACHER’S ROLE

11. Policy Statement
The policy aim to protect the
child from all forms of
violence that may be
inflicted by adults, persons
in authority as well as their
fellow students, including
bullying.
Zero tolerance for any act of
child abuse, exploitation,
violence, discrimination,
bullying and other forms of
abuse.
To ensure that such special
protection from all forms of abuse
and exploitation and care as is
necessary for the child's well
being, taking into account the
primary rights and duties of
parents, legal guardians, or other
individuals who are legally
responsible and exercise custody
over the child.
To provide special protection to
children who are gravely
threatened or endangered by
circumstances which affect their
normal development and over
which they have no control, and to
assist the concerned agencies in
their rehabilitation.
Defend the right of children to
assistance, including proper care
and nutrition, and
special protection from all forms
of neglect, abuse,
cruelty, exploitation and other
conditions prejudicial
to their development.

12. Prohibited Acts
CHILD ABUSE – refers to the maltreatment of a child whether habitual or not, which
includes the following :
1. Psychological or physical abuse, neglect, cruelty, sexual abuse and emotional
maltreatment.
2. Any act or deeds or words which debases, degrades or demeans the intrinsic
worth dignity of a child as a human being.
3. Unreasonable deprivation of the child's basic needs for survival such as food and
shelter; or
4. Failure to immediately give medical treatment to an injured child resulting in
serious impairment of his or her growth and development or in the child’s
permanent in capacity or death.

13. Prohibited Acts
DISCRIMINATION AGAINST CHILDREN
- refers to an act of exclusion, distinction, restriction or preference which
is based on any ground such as age, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation
and gender identity, language, religion, political or other opinion,
national or social origin, property, birth, being inflicted by AIDS, being
pregnant, being a child in conflict with the law, being a child with
disability or other status or condition, and which has the purpose or
affect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise by
all persons on an equal footing, of all rights and freedom.

14. Prohibited Acts
CORPORAL PUNISHMENT
- Refers to a kind of punishment or penalty imposed for an alleged or actual offense,
which is carried out or inflicted, for the purpose of discipline, training or control, by a
teacher, school administrator, an adult, or any other child who has been given or has
assumed authority or responsibility for punishment or discipline. It includes physical,
humiliating or degrading punishment, including but not limited to the following :
1. Blows such as, but not limited to, beating, kicking, hitting, slapping, or lashing, of
any part of a child’s body, with or without the use of an instrument such as, but
not limited to a cane, broom, stick, whip or belt;
2. Striking of a child’s face or head, such being declared as a “no contract zone”;
3. Pulling hair, shaking, twisting joints, cutting or piercing skin, dragging, pushing or
throwing of a child;

15. Prohibited Acts
4. Forcing a child to perform physically painful or damaging acts such as, but not limited to,
holding a weight or weights for an extended period and kneeling on stones, salt, pebbles or
other objects;
5. Deprivation of a child’s physical needs as a form of punishment;
6. Deliberate exposure to fire, ice water, smoke, sunlight, rain, pepper, alcohol, or forcing
the child to swallow substances, dangerous chemicals, and other materials that can cause
discomfort or threaten the child’s health, safety and sense of security such as, but not
limited to insecticides, excrement or urine;
7. Tying up a child;
8. Confinement, imprisonment or depriving the liberty of a child;
9. Verbal abuse or assaults, including intimidation or threat of bodily harm, swearing or
cursing, ridiculing or denigrating the child;
10. Forcing a child to swear a sign, to undress or disrobe, or put on anything that will make
a child look or feel foolish, which belittles or humiliates the child in front of others; and
11. Permanent confiscation of personal learner’s property

16. Prohibited Acts
CHILD EXPLOITATION
– refers to the use of children for someone else's advantage, gratification or profit
resulting in an unjust, cruel and harmful treatment of the child.
Two forms :
1) Sexual exploitation – abuse of position of vulnerability, differential power, or trust,
for sexual purposes.
2)Economic exploitation – use of the child in work or other activities for the benefit of
others.

17. Prohibited Acts
VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN COMMITTED IN SCHOOLS
– refers to a single act or a series of acts committed by school administrators,
academic and non-academic personnel against a child which result in or is likely to
result in physical, sexual, psychological harm or suffering or other abuses including
threats of such acts, battery, assault, coercion, harassment or arbitrary deprivation
of liberty. It includes, but is not limited to the following acts:
1)Physical violence - bodily or physical harm. It includes assigning tasks which are
hazardous to their physical well-being.
2) Sexual violence – acts that sexual in nature. It includes, but not limited to : rape,
sexual harassment, forcing the child to watch obscene or indecent shows, forcing
the child to engage in sexual activity.

18. Prohibited Acts
VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN COMMITTED IN SCHOOLS
3) Psychological violence – acts or omissions causing or likely to cause mental or
emotional suffering of the child.
4) Other acts of violence of a physical, sexual or psychological nature that are
prejudicial to the best interest of the child.

19. Prohibited Acts
BULLYING OR PEER ABUSE
– committed when a student commits an act or a series of acts directed towards another
student, or a series of single acts directed towards several students in a school setting or a
place of learning, which results in physical and mental abuse, harassment, intimidation, or
humiliation.
a. Threats to inflict a wrong upon a person, honor or property of the person or on his or her
family;
b. Stalking or constantly following or pursuing a person in his or her daily activities, with
unwanted and obsessive attention;
c. Taking of property;
d. Public humiliation, or public and malicious imputation of a crime or of a vice or defect,
whether real or imaginary, or any act, omission, condition, status, or circumstance
tending to cause dishonor, discredit or expose a person to contempt;

20. Prohibited Acts
BULLYING OR PEER ABUSE
e. Deliberate destruction or defacement of, or damage to the child's property;
f. Physical violence committed upon a student, which may or may not result to harm or
injury, with or without the act of weapon. Such violence may be in the form of mauling,
hitting, punching, kicking, throwing things at the student, pinching, spanking, or other similar
acts;
g. Demanding or requiring sexual or monetary favors or exacting money or property from a
pupil or student; and
h. Restraining the liberty and freedom of a pupil or student.

21. Prohibited Acts
CYBER-BULYING
- any conduct which results to harassment, intimidation, or
humiliation, through electronic means or other technology, such
as, but not limited to texting, email, instant messaging, chatting,
internet, social networking websites or other platforms or
formats.

22. Penalties:
1st Offense - reprimand
2nd offense and subsequent
time - suspension for not
more than one (1) week (this
is after the
offending child has received
counseling or
other interventions)
* during the period of
suspension, the offending
child and the parents or
guardians may be required to
attend further seminars and
counseling.
PROCEDURES IN HANDLING BULLYING INCIDENTS IN
SCHOOLS
It shall be acted upon by
the School Head who
shall inform the parents
or guardians of the
victim and offending
child;
The incident will be
referred to the Child
Protection Committee for
counseling and other
intervention.
If warranted, penalties
may be imposed by the
School Head.

23. 01
The child
and the
parents or
guardians
must be
informed
of
the

24. 01
The child
and the
parents or
guardians
must be
informed
of
the
02
The child
shall be
given the
opportuni
ty to
answer
the
complaint

25. 03
The
decision of
the school
head must
be writing,
stating the
facts and
the reasons
for the
01
The child
and the
parents or
guardians
must be
informed
of
the
02
The child
shall be
given the
opportuni
ty to
answer
the
complaint

26. 03
The
decision of
the school
head must
be writing,
stating the
facts and
the reasons
for the
04
The
decision of
the school
head may
be
appealed as
provided
in existing
rules of the
01
The child
and the
parents or
guardians
must be
informed
of
the
02
The child
shall be
given the
opportuni
ty to
answer
the
complaint

27. If the bullying or peer abuse
resulted in serious physical
injuries or death, whenever
appropriate, the case shall
be death with in accordance
with the provisions of
Republic Act No. 7610 and
its Implementing Rules and
Regulations.

28. Depending on the gravity of the
bullying committed by any
pupil, student or learner, the
school may impose other non-
disciplinary measures

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