Tamil Nadu Teachers Education University - B.Ed Course - II Year - Semester IV - Elective - Unit I - Introduction to Special Education

1. SPECIAL EDUCATION
Ms R SRIDEVI
Assistant Professor, Pedagogy of Mathematics
Loyola College of Education
Chennai 34
UNIT I
INTRODUCTION TO SPECIAL EDUCATION
SEMESTER IV
CODE BD1MA

2. • Special Education
– Meaning
– Concept
– Definition
– Principles
– Objectives
– Scope
– Types
• Historical Perspectives in
Special Education

3. SPECIAL EDUCATION

4. FATHER OF SPECIAL EDUCATION
• Dr. Mithu Alur (Born
27, March 1943)
• ADAPT – Able Disable
All People Together.
• She is the founder
chairperson of the
Spastic Society of
India

5. MEANING
• It refers to the
education of
persons who are …
• Physically
• Intellectually
• Emotionally
• Socially
• Sensorily

6. SPECIAL EDUCATION
• Special education
is instruction that is
specially designed to
meet the unique needs
of a child with a
disability.

7. TERMS RELATED TO SPECIAL
CHILDREN
IMPAIRMENT DISABILITY
HANDICAP

8. Categories Under IDEA
 Autism
 Deaf-Blindness
 Developmental
Delay
 Emotional
Disturbance
 Hearing
Impairments
(including
deafness)
 Mental Retardation
Multiple Disabilities
 Orthopedic
Impairments
 Other Health
Impairments
 Specific Learning
Disabilities
 Speech and
Language
Impairments
 Traumatic Brain
Injury
 Visual Impairments

9. Categories Under IDEA
 T: Traumatic Brain Injury
 H: Hearing Impairment
 E: Emotional Disturbance
 M: Mental Retardation
 O: Orthopedic Impairment
 M: Multiple Disabilities
 L: Learning Disabilities
 O: Other Health Impairment
 V: Visual Impairment
 S: Speech and Language Impairment
 D: Developmental Delay
 A: Autism
 D: Deaf-Blindness

10. OBJECTIVES OF SPL EDU
 To help special children to get adjusted to
their environment.
 To make them familiar with their abilities
and capacitates and helping them to
actualise these abilities.
 To provide educational opportunities to
each and every special child irrespective
of their disability
 To arrange guidance programmes for their
parents with an eye to seek their
cooperation in education.

11. OBJECTIVES OF SPL EDU
 To change the attitude of the society
towards these special children
 To help exceptional children to acquire
necessary skills necessary skills for their
independent living
 To utilise their contribution for the
progress of the nation and increase their
status in society
 To develop all social, vocational,
communication skills for person with
disability

12. PRINCIPLES OF SPL EDU
 ZERO REJECTION
 NON-DISCRIMINATORY EVALUATION
 APPROPRIATE EDUCATION
 LEAST RESTRICTIVE ENVIRONMENT
 PARENT AND STUDENT
PARTICIPATION
 PROCEDURAL DUE PROCESS

13. ZERO REJECTION
 It ensures that no child can be denied a
free, appropriate public education.

14. NON-DISCRIMINATORY
EVALUATION
 schools to evaluate students fairly to
determine if they have a disability

15. APPROPRIATE
EDUCATION
 schools to provide individually tailored
education for each student based on
evaluation
 At least one non special education
teacher and one special education
teacher
 o A qualified representative from the
school who is knowledgeable about
special education as well as general
education.

16. LEAST RESTRICTIVE
ENVIRONMENT
 In early intervention ages 0 through 2
favours the child being educated in their
natural environment, which can be
home or at a out of home center.

17. PROCEDURAL DUE
PROCESS
 Gives parents and professionals
educational rights to ensure the best
educational practices for the students

18. PARENTAL AND STUDENT
PARTICIPATION
 Parents have the right to access school
records of their child and also they have
the say as to who has access to the
children’s rights.
 Parental consent is required before a
child may be evaluated for the first time
 Parents must be included in the
decision making of the goals for their
child.

19. HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
 Pedro Ponce de Leon, in 1500s, set an
example by teaching the art of speaking,
reading, and writing to deaf pupils.

20. HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
 Juan Pablo Bonnet supposedly published
the first book on this matter in 1620 by
listing the method used by Pedro Ponce de
Leon.

21. HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
 In 1784, Valentin Haüy opened the National
Institution of Blind Youth in Paris with 12
blind pupils.

22. HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
 Scientific attempts to educate and train
children with intellectual disabilities can be
traced back to 1807.

23. HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
 Louis Braille, who was blinded at the
age of three, invented the system in
1824 while a student at the Institution
National des Jeunes Aveugles (National
Institute for Blind Children)

24. HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
 Charles-Michel de l'Épée (French:
[ʃaʁlmiʃɛl dəlepe]; 24 November 1712 –
23 December 1789) was a philanthropic
educator of 18th-century France who
has become known as the "Father of the
Deaf".