FOUNDATION OF SPECIAL

AND INCLUSIVE EDUCATION

BY LANIE P. VERGARA
 Lesson 3:

Social Acceptance of Persons

with Disabilities
Lesson Objectives
• Compare and contrast important practices of the
Renaissance’s belief on isolation/exclusion and Modern
Age Inclusion

• Identify Exclusion , Segregation, Integration and Inclusion

of the PWDs in the community
•1817, the 1st Special Education school in the United States, the
American Asylum for the Education and Instruction of the
Deaf and Dumb ( now called the “American School for the
Deaf”) was established in Hartford, Connecticut, by Gallaudet.
•1829, a young student of the Paris School for the Blind adapted
the existing code, he was Louis Braille.
•Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone and this opened
more possibilities for helping the deaf learn speech.
•Jean Marc Itard experimented with a “wild boy” in an attempt
to “normalize” him and proved that with appropriate training,
a person with Intellectual Disability can exhibit behaviour
well- above his normal capacity.
•Middle of the 19th century , Special Education Programs were
being provided in many shelters. Education was a prominent
part of moral therapy.
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•Anne Sullivan dedicatedly taught the deaf, mute and blind
Helen Keller who later achieved a level of education which
seemed impossible to reach by someone with her physical
obstacles.
•Close of the 19th century, Special Classes within regular public
schools had been launched in major cities.

•20th century gave importance on inclusivism and the idea of

education for all.
 SPECIAL EDUCATION IN THE
PHILIPPINES
2012 Development of Special Program in Journalism (SPJ)

2013 Development of the Special Program in the Arts (SPA)

2014 Development of the Special Program in Sports (SPS)

1998 Issuance of the reclassification of Regular Teacher and

Principal Items to SPED Teacher and Special School Principal
Items

2015 The 1st graduate school of Special Education in Mindanao was

established at the University of Southeastern Philippines, Davao
City

2016 Holding of the 1st ASEAN Workshop on Special Education in

Jakarta, Indonesia with Philippine delegates.
1978 Offering of SPED as a major field of specialization in the
undergraduate level by the University of the Philippines

1963 Setting up of the Manila Science High School for the gifted students, start of
iterant teaching of the blind.

1962 The 1st National Seminar in Special Education was held and attended by
almost 400 supervisors, speech and occupational therapists, guidance
counselors, special school and classroom teachers from all over the country.

1960 Start of the Offering of SPED courses, graduate level by private universities.

1957 Offering courses for teaching the gifted, mentally retarded, socially
handicapped, deaf, and the blind at the Baguio Vocational Normal School
1956 Holding of the First Summer Institute on Teaching the Deaf at DSB,
start of special classes for the deaf in regular schools

1950 Opening of the Philippine Association of the Deaf (PAD) School

1910-1920 Classes at the School for the Blind were taught by a Filipino
teacher, Rogerio Lagman, who trained for one year at the school for
the blind in Berkeley, California.

1907 Miss Delight Rice opened the Insular School for the Deaf and Blind
in Ermita, Manila