The document provides guidance on policies relating to special education programs and services for learners with disabilities in the K to 12 Basic Education Program as outlined in DepEd Order #44, s. 2021. It emphasizes inclusive education and addressing the diverse needs of all learners through maximum participation. Key points include provisions for an Inclusive Learning Resource Center, adaptation of the curriculum, development of Individualized Education Programs, and allowances for self-contained classes, gifted/talented programs, and transition programs from elementary to secondary levels.

1. LET’S DO THE FOLLOWING:
• 1. Flap your hands. Rock your head.
• 2. Read “french” instead of friends.
• 3. Show the sign of number 2 using
fingers.
• 4. Using clock time, put your
notebook at 3 o’clock.
• 5. Raise your hands. Shake them.
Shout “Ha-ha-ha!”

2. COMPARATIVE LABELS ON SPED
CLASSES
WITH DIAGNOSIS OBSERVED THRU INFORMAL
ASSESSMENT
(LIS BASED)
VISUAL IMPAIRMENT DIFFICULTY IN SEEING
HEARING IMPAIRMENT DIFFICULTY IN HEARING
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY
(MENTAL RETARDATION)
DIFFICULTY IN REMEMBERING
OR CONCENTRATING

3. CHILDREN WITH AUTISM
(CWA)
DIFFICULTY IN ADAPTIVE
SKILLS
EMOTIONAL-BEHAVIORAL
DISABILITY (EBD)
DIFFICULTY IN DISPLAYING
INTERPERSONAL BEHAVIOR

4. COMPARATIVE LABELS ON SPED
CLASSES
WITH DIAGNOSIS FROM
MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS
OBSERVED THROUGH INFORMAL
ASSESSMENT
PHYSICAL DISABILITY
Ex. Ortho/Amputee
DIFFICULTY IN MOBILITY
LEARNING DISABILITY
Ex. Dyslexia- Reading Problem
DIFFICULTY IN APPLYING
KNOWLEDGE
SPEECH & LANGUAGE
DISORDER
DIFFICULTY IN
COMMUNICATION
OTHER HEALTH PROBLEMS

5. CHECKLISTS
• ADHD, AUTISM,ID, LD, MULTIPLE
DISABILITY, HI, VI, SPEECH &
LANGUAGE DISORDER

8. QUOTABLE QUOTES:
*Who dares to teach must never cease to
learn. (John Cotton Dana)
*If you want to touch the future, you
teach. (Christa McAuliffe)
*Alone we can do so little, together we
can do so much. (Hellen Keller)

9. THANK YOU!

10. SPED UPDATES

11. Let’s see if you are
already updated.
• 1. What Deped Order that
articulates the provision of
educational services fr learners w/
disabilities?
• A. DO 25 s.2022
• B. DO 21, s. 2021
• C. DO 44, s 2021
• D. DO 45, s, 2025

12. a resource room, what
will be put up in a
large/big school?
a. School Learning Resource center
b. Inclusive Learning Resource Center
c. Inclusive Leaners’s Quarter
d. School Learning Hub

13. learning performance is
required for an LWD be
partially mainstreamed?
a. 20-24%
b. 50-70%
c. 75-85%
d. 50-75%

14. Gifted/Talented Class is
under what education
program?
a. ALIVE
b. SPED
c. Special Curricular Program
d. Special Delivery Modality

15. transition program that
are accommodated in the
elementary?
a. 2-14
b. 5-14
c. 25 and above
d. 15-24

16. DO #44, s. 2021
• POLICY GUIDELINES ON THE
PROVISION OF EDUCATIONAL
PROGRAMS AND SERVICES FOR
LEARNRS W/ DISABILITIES I TH
K TO 12 BASIC EDUCATION
PROGRAM

17. SALIENT POINTS:
• Inclusive Education
• Address diverse needs of all learners
• For maximum participation of
learners
• Fosters flexibility and acceptance

18. INCLUSIVE
EDUCATION
• CONSIDERS ACCOMMODATION.
MODIFICATION, ADAPTATION,
AND INDIVIDUALIZATION OF
CURRICULUM CONTENTS AAND
STRATEGIES

19. QUESTION
• Is it inclusive education if a school
only offers ALIVE Program? Only
SPED Program?

20. • Is it worth to say that a school is
ideal even if there is no inclusive
program existing?

21. INCLUSIVE LEARNING
RESOURCE CENTER
(ILRC)
• refers to a center w/ improved
physical infrastructure and facilities
• provides teaching and learning
accessibility for special children

22. • Has assessment tools and
instruments
• Has support and services from
medical, professional and allied
groups

23. Resource Room
• Remediation or activity room for
learners w/ special needs
• For small or medium school

24. ADAPTATION OF K TO 12
CURRICULUM FOR LWDs
1. Essential Adaptive Skills
 Communication, self-care, home
living, social skills, community use,
self direction, health and safety,
functional academics, leisure and
work

25. 2.Curriculum content
adaptation
• Contents are simplified or adjusted
to meet the special children’s
learning needs

26. 3. Transition Skills and
Competencies
• Develop and improve life and career
skills, socio-emotional skills, and pre-
vocational and livelihood skills

27. • Preparation for independent living,
even for employment
• Schools should use the Individual
Transition Planning form

28. 4. ALS Program Adopting
SPED
• Provides learning opportunities for
learners w/ special needs
• Basic Content & Knowledge
• Functional Academics

29. 5. Development of an IEP
• Provides progress of a learner in
terms of language and cognition,
communication, academics, sensory
readiness, transition, and other
physical and developmental areas

30. • Every learner w/ disability is
supported w/ IEP
• Considered as SF9
• Use the new IEP Model/format

31. SELF-CONTAINED
CLASS
• Exclusive only for LWDs who are
diagnosed or identified to have
severe to profound disabilities
• Fr non-graded LWDs
• For those under transition program

32. Self-contained Provisions
a. 5-14 years old (under elementary)
b. 15-24 years old (secondary)
c. 25 and above (referred to allied
groups like ALS),
DSWD,TESDA,DOLE, etc

33. PROGRAMS
• every school, through school head
and teachers, shall be proactive in
initiating, designing, and implementing
appropriate programs for LWDs
other than the existing programs

34. examples
• SPED sa Presuhan
• SPED sa Baybayon
• Ang Garden ni Boy
• Ang Paypay ni Inday

35. GIFTED/TALENTED
• Shall be implemented from Grades 4-
10
• A separate policy shall be issued any
time soon

36. HEADSTART PROGRAM
• Shall be phased out beginning SY
2021-2022

37. THANK
YOU!