Provision for Children with Special Educational Needs in the Asia Region. AsiaTechnical Series

摘要

The report provides a synthesis of current trends in primary education forchildren with special educational needs in selected countries in the Asia region. It identifies an international and regional shift in the definition of such children and their needs and defines the essential elements of the paradigm shift, including seven principles for a new understanding of 'inclusive' universal primary education (UPE). The report argues that UPE cannot be achieved without the inclusion of children with special educational needs, either in regular schools or in segregated settings, and that most children with special educational needs can be successfully and less expensively accommodated in integrated than in fully segregated settings.