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Flexible Learning and SPED Programs
Flexible Learning and SPED Programs
Appropriate Special Education (SpEd) programs and services are provided for learners with disabilities. These
programs and services refer to academic interventions, curriculum adaptations, learning resource support, career and
guidance counseling programs, and transition programs focusing on technical-vocational competencies and/or special
interest skills development. To address the learners’ health and medical conditions, schools’ referral system to medical and
allied medical-service providers is an essential part of SpEd services. This will only be possible through strong school-
community collaboration and partnerships with parents and families, local government units, and nongovernment agencies
and civic organizations.
Proper assessment and identification of strengths, difficulties and interests are essential in planning for the appropriate
transition program and Individualized Education Plan (IEP) for learners with disabilities. The guidance and counseling
program gives direction and support to learners in preparation for adulthood, identification and accomplishment of goals
in the IEP, and learners’ transition to school-work, home, or community life.
To ensure that learners have access to the K to 12 basic education program, curriculum contextualization, adaptations,
and modifications are made depending on the learner’s abilities and needs. This is possible when time allotment for
learning areas and subjects in junior and senior high school are adjusted and/or extended. Another example is the
Adaptive Physical Education (PE), wherein PE teachers modify and prepare activities to include learners with
disabilities. Learners with disabilities also access the curriculum when they are provided with and supported by learning
resources and assistive devices and technologies. These include sign language interpreters, materials in Braille,
wheelchairs, and hardware and software systems, among others.
On the other hand, the transition program prepares learners to successfully move forward from home to school, class to
class, and/or from school to another school for higher education or middle-level skills development. The program may
also help learners transition to employment and entrepreneurship.