The document discusses special education in the Philippines. It outlines two key laws - RA 7277 which established disabled persons as part of society and entitled them to state support, and RA 9442 which amended RA 7277. Special education is then defined as individually planned instruction to help exceptional children achieve self-sufficiency and success in present and future environments. A key goal is helping children become independent and integrated members of society.

1. Embracing Special
Education

2. RA 7277
(Magna Carta for Disabled
Persons)
Described person with
disabilities are part of
Philippine Society and so the
state shall give full support to
the improvement of the total
well-being of disabled persons
and their integration into the
mainstream of society.

3. RA 9442
An Act Amending Republic Act No. 7277,
Otherwise Known As The “Magna Carta For
Disabled Persons, And For Other Purposes”

4. What is Special
Education?

5. • An individually planned and
systematically implemented and
carefully evaluated instruction to help
exceptional children achieve the
greatest possible personal self-
sufficiency and success in present and
future environments.
(Inciong, 2007)

6. • A teacher must employ effective
strategies that will lead the
Children with Special Needs
(CSNs) to embark into a quality
of life making them
independent, integrated and
contributing members of society.

7. Personal Self Sufficiency
Important goal of special education is
to help the child become independent
from the assistance of adults in
personal maintenance and
development, homemaking,
community life, vocational and leisure
activities and travel.

8. Present Environment
Refers to the current conditions in the life
of the child with disability. This includes
the family, the school and the community
where the child lives, the institutions in
society that extends assistance and
support to children and youth with special
needs such as the government, etc.

9. Future Environment
Forecast of how the child with disability
can move on to the next level of
education, from elementary to secondary
school and on to college or vocational
program. SPED helps a child in the
transition from a students to a wage
earner so that he or she can lead a normal
life even if he or she has a disability.

10. Embracing special children in the
mainstream of regular education is the
call of the times. A Special Education
teacher knows how to design and
innovate to suit to the needs of special
childrens.

11. Teacher touch lives, but special
education teachers “reach and
touch” lives of children under
their care.
(rule-teacher.com)