MARCAIDA, MICHAELA MAE J.

II BSED MATH-A

TIMELINE OF SPECIAL EDUCATION IN THE PHILIPPINES

• 1953

-Elsie Gaches Village was established to take care of abandoned, orphaned and youth with physical and
mental disabilities.

•1954

-First week of August was declared as Sight Saving Week.

•1955

-First parent teacher work conference special education was held at SBD.

-Members of Lodge No. 761 of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks organized the Elks cerebral
palsy project incorporated.

•1957

-The Bureau of Public Schools (BPS) of the department of Education and Culture (DEC)

•1962

-Manila Youth Reception Center (MYRC) was opened for the socially maladjusted and emotionally
disturbed.

-DEC issued Circular No. 11 s. 1962 “Qualifications of Special Education Teachers”

-Experimental integration of blind children at the Jose Rizal Elementary School (Pasay)
-St. Joseph of Cupertino School for the Mentally Retarded was founded.

•1963

-Teacher scholar training for blind children started at PNU Philippine Printing House for the Blind was
established (UNICEF and CARE, Philippines)

•1965

-Training program for school administrators on the organization, administration and supervision of
special education classes
•1967

-BPS organized the National Committee on Special Education.

-General letter No. 213: regulating the size of special classes for maximum effectiveness.

•1968

-R.A 5250: an act establishing a ten-year training program for teachers of special and exceptional
children in the Philippines.

-teacher scholar at UP commenced in the areas of hearing impairment, mental retardation and
giftedness.

•1969

-Classes for socially maladjusted children where held at MYRC.

-Jose Fabella Memorial School was divided into five units:

• Philippine Training School for Boys (Tanay)

• Philippine Training School for Girls (Alabang)

• Reception and Child Study Center (Manila)

• Elsie Gaches Village (Alabang)

• Nayon ng Kabataan (Pasay)

•1970

-R.A No. 5250: Teacher training program for children with behavioral problem started at Up.

-the school for the Deaf and blind was reorganized into two separate residential school.

•1973

-UNESCO and Philippines Association for retarded: First Asian conference on mental and retardation was
held in Manila.

•1975

-Silahis concept of Special education was implemented.

-Special subjects and services division was abolished.

1977-1987: Decade of the Filipino Child

•1976

-First camp Pag-ibig: day camp for children with disabilities.

-Molave youth home for children with behavioral problem was organized in Quezon City.

•1977

-Ministry of education issued department order No. 10: designating regional and division supervisors of
special education programs. Bacarra Special Education Center at(Division of Ilocos Sur) Bacolod Special
Education Center (Division of Bacolod)

•1978

-Presidential Decree 1509: Creation of National Commission Concerning Disabled Persons (NCCDP)

-MEC memorandum No. 258: Directed school divisions to organize special classes with a set of
guidelines on the designation of teachers who have no formal training.

-UP opened its special education training program for undergraduate students.

-PAD started mainstreaming program in the Division ofManila City schools

•1979

-Caritas-Medico-Pedagogical Institution for the mentally retarded was organized.

-Jagna special education center in the division of Bohol was organized.

•1980

-School for crippled children at the southern island hospital in Cebu City was established.

•1981

-UN: international Year of disabled persons

•1982

-Batas Pambansa Bilang 344

•1987

-Autism Society of the Philippines was organized.

•1998

-Palarong Pinoy Para sa May K was held at Philsport Complex.

•1999

-DECS order No. 104: Exemption of the physically handicapped from taking the National Achievement
Test (NEAT) and National Secondary Aptitude Test (NSAT)
-DECS order No. 108: strengthening of special education program for the gifted in public school system.
-DECS Order No. 448: Search for the 1999 Most outstanding special education teacher for the gifted.

-Memorandum No. 457: National Photo Contest on Disability

•2000

-DECS Order No. 11: Recognized Special Education Centers in the Philippines.

-Memorandum No. 24: fourth International Noise Awareness Day

-Every fourth week of November: national observance of the week of gifted talented

1993-2002 Asian and the Pacific Decade on the Disabled Person

•1996

-The first week of January was declared as Autism Consciousness Week

-First Seminar workshop on information technology for the visually impaired

•1997

-DECS order NO. 26: Institutionalization of Special education program in all school.

-First Philippine Wheelathon race was the main event of the 19th disability prevention and
rehabilitation.