Special education for children with disabilities in Malaysia: progress and obstacles
In recent years the inclusion of persons with disabilities has become a development agenda for many countries. One of the channels to achieve inclusivity for this social group is through educational provision for children with disabilities. Malaysia has a long history of providing education for ch...
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School of Social, Development and Environmental Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2016
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10629/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10629/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10629/1/9.geografia-ogos16-muhdnadhir-edam.pdf |
| Summary: | In recent years the inclusion of persons with disabilities has become a development agenda for many countries. One
of the channels to achieve inclusivity for this social group is through educational provision for children with
disabilities. Malaysia has a long history of providing education for children with various categories of disabilities,
especially in terms of primary and secondary education. This study evaluated the progress and status of Malaysia’s
special needs education. Three qualitative research methods were used for this research; qualitative systematic
review, focus group discussion and interviews. Despite positive development such as the formulation of adapted
curriculum for primary students with special needs and an introduction of early detection programmes, a lot more
challenges still needed to be acknowledged and surmounted as in the case of adequate appropriate resources, early
intervention programmes, essential facilities, readiness and adequate teaching materials all of which underlined the
imperative of multi-stakeholder participatory collaboration in planning, implementation, monitoring and impact
evaluation. |
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