SPECIAL EDUCATION: Historical Perspective

1900-1910 1920- 1930- 1960-1969

1950-1959
1929 1949

1902 1936 1950 1956 1960

PAD opened a school The first Summer
Some private college
Special Education
started during the 1926
Mrs. Maria Villa
Francisco was the first
for children with
hearing impairment.
Institute on Teaching
the Deaf was held at and universities 1965
started to offer Marked the start of
American Regime. The Filipino principal of the School for The
The Philippine special education on training programs for
interest of teaching the School for the Deaf and the Blind in
children with special
Association for Deaf
(PAD) was founded Deaf and the blind 1953 Pasay City. This year graduate
courses.
school school administrators
on the organization,
needs was pioneered (SDB) The Elshie Gaches marked the
mostly composed of administration, and
by Mr. David Atkinson, was established to beginning of the
people with hearing supervision of special
the General
impairment and special
take care of the integration of deaf 1962 education held at UP.
Superintendent
Education.
of
education specialists 1945 abandoned
orphaned youth and
and pupils in regular
classes.
Manila Youth
National Orthopedic
Hospital for the children with physical
Rehabilitation
opened
was
1967
1907 Crippled Children and and
handicaps.
mental 1957 The Bureau of Public
Special Education Youth was a school The Bureau of Public Schools organized the
1927
formally started upon
1963
established for young School of DECS National Committee
the establishment of
Insular School for the The government patients who had to
be hospitalized for a
1954
The first week of
Created The Special
Education Section on
The training of DEC
on SPED.

Deaf and Blind in established the teachers scholars for

long period of time. August was declared Special Subjects and
Welfareville
Manila. . It was
established through Children’s Village,
as Sight Saving Week. Services Division..
blind children at PNU
was approved under 1969
Classes for socially
the hard work of the school for people
1949 1955
RA No. 3562. This
Director of Public with
retardation
mental
in Quezon City Science Private sectors
1958 same year the Manila
maladjusted children
were organized at the
Education, Mr. David The American Science High School
Mandaluyong, Rizal . High School was supported the Manila Youth
Barrows. Miss Delight Foundation for for gifted students
inaugurated for gifted government’s Reception Center..
Rice, an American Overseas Blind was established.
educator was the first students. program for disabled
(AFOB) opened its
teacher of special Filipinos.
regional office in
school. Manila.
 SPECIAL EDUCATION: Historical Perspective
1980-
1970-1979 1990-1999
1989

1974National 1950 1960

1970 The first
Conference in the
The School for the 1956 DECS issued Order
No.14 that directed 1965
Training of teachers
for children with
Rehabilitation of the 1978
Marked the creation
Crippled Children at
the Southern Island
The Philippine
Institute for the Deaf,
regional officers to DECS Order No.5
“Reclassification of
Disabled was held at Hospital in Cebu City organize the
behavior problems the Social Security of the National an oral school for Regional Special Regular Tear and
started at UP. Commission was organized. children with hearing principal item” to
building. Education Council
Concerning Disabled impairment was (RESC) SPED teachers and
Persons, later
1953 established.
1962
special schools
1971 1975
renamed as
National Council for
the
The United States The summer training
principal item..
DECS
memorandum
issued
on
a The Division of Manila
City Schools
the Welfare of Disable Assemble proclaimed 1957 for teachers of the
hearing impaired was 1967
Persons. the observance of the The first National
duties of the SPED implemented the held at PNU. DECS Order No.33
teachers for the blind. Silahis Concept of SPED international year of Congress on Street
“Implementation of
in public elementary the disabled children. Children was held ate
La Salle Greenhills in
1963
Third week of January
Administrative Order
schools.
1979
No. 101 directing the
San Juan Metrp. was declared as
1973 Juvenile The Bureau of “Autism
DPWH, DECS, CHED,
The and 1977 Elementary Education 1955 Consciousness week”
to provide
architectural facilities
Domestic
Court in
Relations
Manila
MEC issued Special Education unit Batas
enacted
Pambansa
the
1958 1962 or structural feature
Department Order conducted a two-year The summer training for disabled persons
established Tahanan Accessibility Law to The first wheelaton-a
No.10 that designed nationwide survey of for teacher of the in all state colleges,
Special School for enhance the nobility race for wheelchair
regional and division the unidentified visually impaired universities, and
socially maladjusted of the disabled users was the main
supervisors of SPED exceptional children started at PNU. other buildings.
children and youth. person. event of the National
programs. who were in school.
Disability Prevention
and Rehabilitation
week”