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Students from social care institutions are a sensitive subgroup whose inclusive needs often diverse the average student’s needs and for which specific teachers’ competencies are expected. The paper presents the special educational needs of this heterogeneous group of school children explaining the frequent occurrence of learning difficulties, behavioral, emotional, and other developmental problems conditioned by …

Inclusive education implies that all children have different (special) needs which have to be met. The prerequisite for meeting those needs are legal regulations related to the education of children with special needs that are continually updated in accordance with the current scientific data. The aim of this research was to determine whether there are …

The paper discusses the operationalization of education policies on children’s rights. Children’s rights primarily derive from fundamental human rights that foster the fulfillment of the biological, social, psychological, intellectual and spiritual needs of all. Adoption of the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child has brought a change in the understanding of the children’s …

Inclusion is a comprehensive and complex process that, within the social model, encourages and directs the development of a society in which everyone is treated as an equal member. Inclusive education policy for students with disabilities ensures the availability of a regular education system, respecting individual needs and providing support that will ensure the development …

The paper describes the attitude towards children with disabilities from the beginning of human society to this day. Terms of community relations towards children with disabilities are constrained and marked with different social circumstances and historical events. Economic and political developments have strongly influenced for segregation children with disabilities. Segregated attitude and prejudice against people …

This study aims to gain insight into the teachers’ reflections on the integration of children with disabilities, their perceived and encountered professional challenges and barriers. The study included 39 classroom and subject teachers from the Varaždin County. Interviews as research method were used for collecting data. The interviews were recorded, the materials were then transcribed, …

Inclusion implies an open education system, respecting personality and diversity of the other, his ethnic and cultural background, willingness to cooperate, active doing for the benefit of another and passing appropriate judgments and decisions. In order to achieve the mentioned approach, educational institutions should create organizational assumptions that are based on the perception of the …

In this essay I have researched the history of special education in the USA, Germany and Bosnia and Herzegovina. I have found out some interesting facts about the position of children with special needs. As it is already known, segregation was very much present in the past centuries. Attitude towards children with special needs was …