TEACHERS' PERCEPTIONS TOWARDS INCLUSIVE EDUCATION

Inclusive education is a concept that allows students with special needs to be placed and received instruction in the mainstream classes and being taught by mainstream teachers.  According to the Malaysian Ministry of Education, students with special needs are those who are  visually handicapped, or partially or fully deaf or suffer from the disability to learn (Akta Pendidikan 1996). These are the students that have been identified as suffering from physical-sensory deficiencies and learning disabilities. The Ministry of Education provides special education programmes for the three types of disabilities, namely, hearing, visual and learning disabilities.  

The learning disabilities programme provides educational service to a heterogeneous group of  students with mild retardation, students with autistic tendencies and students with multiple disabilities.  Such students have been placed in special classes or in special schools. Placement into special needs programmes is decided based on the special needs categorizations, namely visual, hearing and/or learning disabilities.  For students with visual or hearing impairments, they are either placed in special schools or in the integration programme in the mainstream schools.  Students with learning disabilities are regularly  placed in the integration programme in the mainstream schools


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