Special education is an integral part of Romania's national education system. It is organized at all levels of pre-university education for students with mental, hearing, vision, or associated disabilities. In Bucharest, special education is provided in 19 special schools, including kindergartens, gymnasium schools, vocational schools, and schools for hearing and visually impaired students. Teachers use adapted methodologies and focus on differentiating and individualizing instruction to meet students' needs. Technology also plays an important role in supporting communication and learning for students with physical or sensory impairments.

1. SPECIAL EDUCATION
IN ROMANIA
IONESCU CORINA
XANTHI, GREECE, 8th
OCTOBER 2018

2. SPECIAL EDUCATION IN ROMANIA
Special and specially integrated education is an integral part of the
Romanian national education system and provides all
children/pupils/young people educational programs adapted to their
degree of deficiency and their development needs.
It is organized at all levels of pre-university education, depending on the
type and degree of disability, such as: mental, hearing, vision, or
associated.

3. SPECIAL EDUCATION IN ROMANIA
In Bucharest, special education are provided in 19 special schools:
 1 kindergarten
 11 gymnasium schools
 2 professional vocational schools
 2 gymnasium school and 1 high school for hearing impaired pupils
 1 gymnasium school and 1 high school for visual impaired pupils

4. SPECIAL EDUCATION IN ROMANIA
The special education and learning/teaching process is achieved
through lessons, practical works in laboratories or school workshops,
complementary activities of complex and integrated therapeutic
education by teachers, educators and specific intervention activities
(rehabilitation/ recovery) carried out by specialists in specially designed
cabinets, production practice (at the arts and crafts school/vocational
schools), out-of-school activities and/or outside school.

5. SPECIAL EDUCATION IN ROMANIA
The didactic methodologies used in special education are
adapted to the type and the degree of deficiency/disability and the
learning specificity of children with disabilities.
In the current activity of special education the didactic strategies
and methodologies aims at differentiating and individualizing the
educational approach, introducing new approaches to the learning
process and flexible use of all available resources.

6. SPECIAL EDUCATION IN ROMANIA
In the design and implementation of lessons and various
educational activities at the class level, teaching staff demonstrates
flexibility and adapts learning situations, strategies, materials,
methods, resources and resources to each student's educational
progress.

7. SPECIAL EDUCATION IN ROMANIA
Teachers independently choose to organize their activities with all
pupils (frontal activity), by groups of pupils (group activity) or
individually (differentiated/individualized activity) - depending on the
specific objectives proposed for the lesson and the level of pupils.

8. SPECIAL EDUCATION IN ROMANIA
To teach the majority of disciplines, teachers, in special
education, use, on a large scale, methods based on the voluntary
action of children (exercises, practical activities, etc.) and stimulated
action (didactic games, dramatization learning, etc.).

9. SPECIAL EDUCATION IN ROMANIA
Teaching is done through the use of active and participatory methods
that require the student's interest, creativity, imagination, involvement
and participation, in order to acquire knowledge that will use them
later.
Interactive-Creative Learning: is focused on learning through research-
discovery, on self-directed learning, independent or guided, and
especially on creative thinking and imagination.

10. SPECIAL EDUCATION IN ROMANIA
A desideratum of the special education is to improve the use of
the means of working materials at lessons, so it is easier to capture
their attention and to facilitate the affective and motivational
involvement of pupils in the lesson sequences.
Lately, in special education ITC has an important role. More and
more educational soft's and games are used in teaching and learning
process.

11. SPECIAL EDUCATION IN ROMANIA
In the educational process, the computer plays 2 important roles:
- support in communication
- support in learning
In the case of children with physical and sensorial impairments, Computer Assisted
Learning determines the increase in learning independence.
- develop the ability of pupils with severe deficiencies to operate with signs and symbols
- train and develops visual and auditory perception
- motivates the pupils

12. THANK YOU!