New trends in education of children with disabilities

Abstract

Globally, there are millions of children living with disabilities in the world. These children have traditionally been marginalized within or excluded from schools because of their apparent difficulties. UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) imposed a requirement for radical changes to traditional approaches to provision made for children with disabilities. One year later, the 1990 World Conference on Education for all: focused attention on a much broader range of children with disabilities who may be excluded from or marginalized within education systems. This conference declared the inclusive education is regarded as the only means to achieve the goal of “Education for All”. This trend was reaffirmed by next international documents. In Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities (2006), disabled persons should be able to access general tertiary education, vocational training, adult education and lifelong learning without discrimination and on an equal basis with others through reasonable accommodation of their disabilities. This research examines the new international trends occurring regarding the education of children with disabilities and finally results that the new trends show a movement from special education to inclusive education and moving from seclusion to inclusion and provide that solutions must focus on prevention, cure and steps to make these children as normal as possible.