Comprehensive Inclusive Education for Children with Special Needs

Inclusive education is one of the programs that cater to the principles and goals of ¿Education for All¿ providing free and compulsory primary education for all, and promoting learning and life skills for young people and adults as it addresses the basic rights to basic education among children, especially the children with special needs. The conduct of the study is in compliance to an earnest desire and honest intent to find out the status of implementation of the comprehensive inclusive education program for children with special needs, along the components of Child Find, Assessment, Program Options, Curriculum Modifications, and Parental Involvement. Included as objectives of the study were to determine the attendant problems encountered by the three groups of implementers and to investigate the differences in perceptions of respondents in the implementation of the program. Based on the findings of the study, there is a need to enhance the implementation of the comprehensive inclusive education for children with special needs. An orientation and in-service training on comprehensive inclusive education for untrained implementers is recommended to enhance the implementation.