HISTORY OF SPECIAL EDUCATION (INTERNATIONAL AND PHILIPPINES)

Philippine Foundation for the RA 344 Enhance the Mobility of

R.A 3562 Promote Education Disabled Persons by Requiring RA 9442 Magna Carta for
Rehabilitation of the
for the Blind (1963) Certain Buildings, Institutions to Disabled Person (1995)
Disabled (1949) install facilities…(1982)

UNESCO Salamanca State UNESCO Convention Against UN Convention on the Rights Teaching Filipino Children
Program (1948) Discrimination (1960) of the Child (1989) with Autism (1998)
Philippe Pinel Jean Marc Gaspard Itard Jacob Rodrigues Pereira Samuel Gridley Howe
Concerned humanitarian treatment of Authority on the diseases of the ear and He developed an early form of sign Teaches individuals with visual and
individuals with mental illness the education of deaf students language hearing impairments
1950s 1970s 1990s
1940s 1960s 1980s 2000s
Maria Montessori Edouard Seguin Thomas Gallaudet
works with children with mental developing sensory motor activities for Taught children with hearing impairments
retardation children with mental retardation via a system of manual signs and symbols

The first National Seminar in
Special Education in a school
for Deaf and the Blind (1962)
Education for all Handicapped
Children Act (1975)
Individuals with Disability
Education Act (IDEA) (1975)
World Declaration on Education for
All (1990)
The World Conference on Special
Needs Education (1994)
The AGENDA for Action of Asian and
Pacific Records of Disabled Persons

H. Presidential Decree No.

Special Child Study RA 7277 Rehabilitation, self-
603 Child and Youth Welfare
Center in Manila (1956) development, and self reliance
International Laws Code (1975) of disabled person… (1992)
Significant People
Philippine Legislations
Dallen Yvon M. Apique
Bachelor in English Education-II