Do other countries educate children with disabilities in the regular classroom?

Question

In the United States children with disabilities are educated in the regular classroom wherever possible. I am doing a presentation about it and I wondered if other countries have similar laws.

Answer 1

I don't know about the other first-world countries, but in Tanzania disabled children were not educated at all, most of the time. I had one student who walked with a cane due to a short leg; he was a very bright student. There were not even many students with glasses! For the most part, if a student had some trait making it difficult to learn, such as poor eyesight, stuttering, or a hearing problem; they were never allowed to continue the education.

Those are the physical limitations. I rarely saw any mentally disabled people in that country at all. Often, mentally disabled children have corresponding illnesses -- such as the common heart condition with Down's syndrome -- and with the difficulty of finding medical care I was given to understand that they often do not survive to reach primary school age. If a child is born prematurely or with one of the debilitating diseases, they often can not survive without very good medical care.

The mental disabilities that are not recognized, such as ADD and ADHA, were not treated. If a child did not pay attention in the classroom he or she was a discipline problem and treated as such. The education received by a child with ADD would be inferior due to the lack of attention, and therefore that child would not succeed in continuing to further education.

I hope these help!

Answer 2

I'm a grade five homeroom school teacher in Thailand, south east Asia. It is quite normal for children with disabilites to be educated within the regular school environment

Answer 3

In Portugal this is also the case. Ideally there's supposed to be a special needs teacher to provide support for the "regular" teacher, but this doesn't always happen.