Special education for children with disabilities in Malaysia: progress and obstacles

In recent years the inclusion of persons with disabilities has become a development agenda for many countries. One of the channels to achieve inclusivity for this social group is through educational provision for children with disabilities. Malaysia has a long history of providing education for ch...

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Main Authors:	Muhamad Nadhir Abdul Nasir, Alfa Nur Aini Erman Efendi
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	School of Social, Development and Environmental Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2016
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10629/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10629/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10629/1/9.geografia-ogos16-muhdnadhir-edam.pdf

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spelling	ukm-106292017-09-07T07:18:04Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10629/ Special education for children with disabilities in Malaysia: progress and obstacles Muhamad Nadhir Abdul Nasir, Alfa Nur Aini Erman Efendi, In recent years the inclusion of persons with disabilities has become a development agenda for many countries. One of the channels to achieve inclusivity for this social group is through educational provision for children with disabilities. Malaysia has a long history of providing education for children with various categories of disabilities, especially in terms of primary and secondary education. This study evaluated the progress and status of Malaysia’s special needs education. Three qualitative research methods were used for this research; qualitative systematic review, focus group discussion and interviews. Despite positive development such as the formulation of adapted curriculum for primary students with special needs and an introduction of early detection programmes, a lot more challenges still needed to be acknowledged and surmounted as in the case of adequate appropriate resources, early intervention programmes, essential facilities, readiness and adequate teaching materials all of which underlined the imperative of multi-stakeholder participatory collaboration in planning, implementation, monitoring and impact evaluation. School of Social, Development and Environmental Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2016-08 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10629/1/9.geografia-ogos16-muhdnadhir-edam.pdf Muhamad Nadhir Abdul Nasir, and Alfa Nur Aini Erman Efendi, (2016) Special education for children with disabilities in Malaysia: progress and obstacles. Geografia : Malaysian Journal of Society and Space, 12 (10). pp. 78-87. ISSN 2180-2491 http://www.ukm.my/geografia/v2/index.php?cont=a&item=2&thn=2016&vol=12&issue=10&ver=loc
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description	In recent years the inclusion of persons with disabilities has become a development agenda for many countries. One of the channels to achieve inclusivity for this social group is through educational provision for children with disabilities. Malaysia has a long history of providing education for children with various categories of disabilities, especially in terms of primary and secondary education. This study evaluated the progress and status of Malaysia’s special needs education. Three qualitative research methods were used for this research; qualitative systematic review, focus group discussion and interviews. Despite positive development such as the formulation of adapted curriculum for primary students with special needs and an introduction of early detection programmes, a lot more challenges still needed to be acknowledged and surmounted as in the case of adequate appropriate resources, early intervention programmes, essential facilities, readiness and adequate teaching materials all of which underlined the imperative of multi-stakeholder participatory collaboration in planning, implementation, monitoring and impact evaluation.
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author	Muhamad Nadhir Abdul Nasir, Alfa Nur Aini Erman Efendi,
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author_facet	Muhamad Nadhir Abdul Nasir, Alfa Nur Aini Erman Efendi,
author_sort	Muhamad Nadhir Abdul Nasir,
title	Special education for children with disabilities in Malaysia: progress and obstacles
title_short	Special education for children with disabilities in Malaysia: progress and obstacles
title_full	Special education for children with disabilities in Malaysia: progress and obstacles
title_fullStr	Special education for children with disabilities in Malaysia: progress and obstacles
title_full_unstemmed	Special education for children with disabilities in Malaysia: progress and obstacles
title_sort	special education for children with disabilities in malaysia: progress and obstacles
publisher	School of Social, Development and Environmental Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate	2016
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Special education for children with disabilities in Malaysia: progress and obstacles

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