Legal and

regulatory basis
of special and
inclusive
education
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Article XIV Section
02
Article XIII Section 2 of
04
Republic Act No.
05
Republic Act No.
1 of 1987 constitution 1987 Constitution 3562 5250

03
Article 356 and 259
06
Presidential Decree No.
of Commonwealth 603 of 1975
Act No. 3203
 01
Article XIV Section 1 of
1987 Constitution

EDUCATION, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY, ARTS, CULTURE AND
SPORTS EDUCATION
Section 1. The State shall protect
and promote the right of all
citizens to quality education at
all levels, and shall take
appropriate steps to make such
education accessible to all.
 02
Article XIII Sec 2 of 1987
Constitution

SOCIAL JUSTICE AND

HUMAN RIGHTS
Section 2. The promotion of
social justice shall include
the commitment to create
economic opportunities
based on freedom of
initiative and self-reliance.
 03
Articles 356 and 259 of
Commonwealth Act No. 3203
“The right of every child to live in an atmosphere conducive to his
physical, moral and intellectual development" and the
concomitant duty of the government "to promote the full growth
of the faculties of every child."
 04
Republic Act 3562

An Act to Promote the Education

of the Blind in the Philippines
which established teacher
training course and Philippine
National School for the blind.
SECTION 1. There shall be established, under the
supervision of the Director of Public Schools, a
residential school for the blind near the City of Manila,
which shall known as the Philippine National School for
the Blind. Said school shall furnish instruction to the
blind in the elementary level.

SECTION 2. Upon the establishment of the Philippine

National School for the Blind, the School for the Deaf
and the Blind in Pasay City shall cease to give instruction
to the blind, and all its blind students, its equipment and
facilities being used in the instruction of the blind, and
members of the faculty teaching the blind shall be
transferred to the Philippine National School for the
Blind.
SECTION 3. There shall be established, under the
supervision and control of the Director of Public Schools
a Teacher-Training Center to train teachers for the blind.
The Philippine Normal College shall provide room and
other facilities for the said Center.

SECTION 4. The Secretary of Education shall issue

such rules and regulations as may be necessary to
implement the provisions of this Act.
SECTION 5. There is hereby appropriated, out of any
funds in the National Treasury not otherwise
appropriated, the sum of five hundred thousand pesos to
carry out the provisions of this Act for the fiscal year
nineteen hundred and sixty-four, including the purchase
of site and the construction of buildings for the
Philippine National School for the Blind. Thereafter, the
amount necessary for the operation and maintenance of
the said school and center shall be included in the annual
General Appropriation Acts.

SECTION 6. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

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Republic Act No. 5250

AN ACT ESTABLISHING A TEN-YEAR

TRAINING PROGRAM FOR TEACHERS
OF SPECIAL AND EXCEPTIONAL
CHILDREN IN THE PHILIPPINES AND
AUTHORIZING THE APPROPRIATION OF
FUNDS THEREOF.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the Philippines in Congress
assembled:

SECTION 1. There is hereby established, under

the administration and supervision of the Bureau
of Public Schools, in cooperation with the
University of the Philippines, the Philippine
Normal College, and the School for the Deaf and
the Blind, a ten-year program for the training of
special and exceptional children. (As amended by
R.A. No. 6067, August 4, 1969).
SECTION 2. The term special and exceptional
children shall include the mentally retarded, the
crippled, the deaf and hard of hearing, the speech
handicapped, the socially and emotionally
disturbed and the gifted.

SECTION 3. The institutions of learning chosen

by the Department of Education to carry out the
training of teachers for this program shall grant
the necessary credit.
SECTION 4. All expenses to be incurred therefore
such as tuition and other fees, stipends of teacher
trainees development and training abroad of members
of the faculty of the cooperating institutions and those
of the special education staff of the General Office,
Bureau of Public Schools, and other expenses incident
to the implementation of this Act shall be charged
against the funds of the program and shall be disbursed
by the Director of Public Schools: Provided, That the
expenses for development and training abroad shall not
exceed ten per centum of the total appropriation
provided in Republic Act Numbered Five thousand two
hundred and fifty. (As amended by R.A. No. 6067,
August 4, 1969).
SECTION 5. The program shall as far as practicable,
include the setting up of pilot classes, for special and
exceptional children in regular schools with the end in
view of integrating said children into the regular school
program and of encouraging socialization.

The program shall set up projects in such a way that

special education shall be conducted within the
facilities of regular schools whenever possible.

The program shall also set up research and survey

projects to identify and locate exceptional children in
need of its services.
SECTION 6. A number of scholarships shall be created
every year for ten year for prospective teachers who
shall undertake the training courses. The coordinator of
the program shall see to it that scholarship grantees and
teacher trainees under the program are intellectually and
emotionally prepared to handle special education.

SECTION 7. The Secretary of Education shall issue

such rules and regulations and shall employ such
specialists as may be necessary to implement the
provisions of this Act.
SECTION 8. The sum of three hundred fifty thousand
pesos is hereby authorized to be appropriated out of any
funds in the National Treasury not otherwise
appropriated to carry out the provisions of this Act for
the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixty-eight.
Thereafter, such sums as are necessary for the operation
of said training program shall be included in the annual
General Appropriations Act.

SECTION 9. This Act shall take effect upon its

approval.

Approved, June 15, 1968.

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Presidential Decree No. 603 of
1975

THE CHILD AND YOUTH

WELFARE CODE
The gifted child shall be given opportunity
and encouragement to develop his special
talents.

The emotionally disturbed or socially

maladjusted child shall be treated with
sympathy and understanding, and shall be
entitled to treatment and competent care.

The physically or mentally handicapped

child shall be given the treatment, education
and care required by his particular condition
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