What is special education?

A day in the life of a Special Education teacher

What are special educational needs?

If your child has more difficulties than most children their age with their schoolwork, communication or behaviour, plenty of help and advice is at hand from specialists, teachers and voluntary organisations.

What 'special educational needs' means

The term 'special educational needs'  has a legal definition, referring to children who have learning difficulties or disabilities that make it harder for them to learn than most children of the same age. Many children will have special needs of some kind at some time during their education.

Help will usually be provided in their ordinary school, sometimes with the help of specialists. If your child has special educational needs, they may need extra help in a range of areas, for example:

• schoolwork
• reading, writing, number work or understanding information
• expressing themselves or understanding what others are saying
• making friends or relating to adults
• behaving properly in school
• organising themselves
• some kind of sensory or physical needs which may affect them in school

Your child's progress

Children make progress at different rates and have different ways in which they learn best. When planning lessons, your child's teacher will take account of this by looking carefully at how they organise their lessons, classroom, books and materials.

The teacher will then choose suitable ways to help your child learn from a range of activities. If your child is making slower progress or having particular difficulties in one area, they may be given extra help or different lessons to help.

Just because your child is making slower progress than you expected or the teachers are providing different support, help or activities in class, this doesn't necessarily mean that your child has special educational needs.

Getting help

Your child's early years are a very important time for their physical, emotional, intellectual and social development. When the health visitor or doctor makes a routine check, they might suggest that there could be a problem. If you have any worries of your own, you should ask for advice right away.

You should first go to your child's class teacher, the person in the school responsible for help for children with special educational needs or the headteacher.

You could ask them if:

• the school thinks your child is having difficulties
• your child is able to work at the same level as others of the same age
• your child is already getting extra help
• you can help your child

PENGURUSAN PPKI

Sistem permohonan penempatan murid berkeperluan khas

Bahagian Pendidikan Khas(BPK), 

Kementerian Pendidikan Malaysia,

Aras 2, Blok E2,

Pusat Pentadbiran Kerajaan Persekutuan,

62604 Putrajaya. 

 

No. Tel  : 03 - 8884 9190

No. Fak : 03 - 8888 6659 

http://apps.moe.gov.my/jpkhas/permohonan/

Portal Rasmi Bahagian Pendidikan Khas KPM

Bahagian Pendidikan Khas

Kementerian Pelajaran Malaysia

Aras 2,Blok E2

Kompleks Kerajaan Parcel E

Pusat Pentadbiran Kerajaan Persekutuan

62604 Putrajaya

T: 03-8884 9190

F: 03-8888 6659

Kini anda boleh melayari laman portal rasmi Bahagian Pendidikan Khas KPM melalui pautan barikut:

http://www.moe.gov.my/bpkhas/

Apa itu Pendidikan Khas ?

Pendidikan khas adalah perkhidmatan dan kemudahan pendidikan yang disediakan untuk individu berkeperluan khas, atau kurang upaya, yang terdiri daripada mereka yang mengalami kecacatan mental, bermasalah pembelajaran, gangguan emosi dan tingkah laku, gangguan komunikasi(pertuturan dan bahasa), hilang pendengaran, hilang penglihatan atau darjah penglihatan yang rendah, kecacatan fizikal dan golongan pintar cerdas.

Kementerian Pelajaran Malaysia menurut Akta Pendidikan 1996, Peraturan-peraturan Pendidikan (Pendidikan Khas 1997 Bahagian II 3(2) menyediakan pendidikan khas dan kemudahan untuk murid bermasalah penglihatan dan pendengaran, manakala pendidikan khas integrasi pula adalah untuk yang bermasalah pembelajaran, penglihatan, dan pendengaran.

Ia diwujudkan di peringkat prasekolah, sekolah harian biasa rendah dan menengah serta sekolah menengah teknik atau vokasional, dengan menggunakan pendekatan pengajaran berasingan dan separa inklusif. Tempoh pengajian bagi sekolah rendah adalah selama enam tahun, manakala bagi sekolah menengah pula selama lima tahun dan dilanjutkan sehingga dua tahun maksimum mengikut keperluan murid.

Bilangan murid pendidikan khas rendah dan menengah di seluruh Malaysia adalah seramai 2912, manakala guru pula ialah seramai 630. Terdapat sebanyak 28 buah sekolah rendah, iaitu lima(kanak-kanak buta), dan 23 (kanak-kanak pekak). Manakala bagi sekolah menengah rendah pula, terdapat tiga buah sekolah pendidikan khas iaitu, satu (kanak-kanak buta) dan tiga (kanak-kanak pekak). Bilangan murid pendidikan khas integrasi pula adalah seramai 11 961, manakala gurunya pula adalah seramai 2587 orang.