Special Children’s Right to Education

Special education refers to the formal learning process designed for children with special educational needs. The educational sector has long realised the rights of children with special educational needs to education. Just because these children have learning difficulties or disabilities, it does mean that they should be deprived of their right to education. The right to education is considered as a universal right, which means all, including children with special educational needs should be afforded with access to free education, wherever they are.

In England, it is said that around 21 percent of children, around 1.7 million young individuals, have special educational needs. This means, these young people should be afforded with free education, albeit special education. Students with learning difficulties or disabilities typically require different or more instructional methods and learning programs. Even though teaching these children could prove to be quite a challenge, it should not be considered as a big burden. These children, while having learning difficulties or disabilities due to physical, sensory, communications, emotional and behavioural elements, still have the right to be afforded with free education.

Several governments have already made significant steps in meeting special education needs of children with learning difficulties and disabilities. In England, for instance, all state schools are compelled by law to make that special help is provided for children with special educational needs. School are required to draft an assessment of the need and an action plan, which will be then be implemented. In severe cases, a statement of special educational needs is made.

While many governments already have placed systems to pursue the right of children with special educational needs to education, there are still some who miserably fail to do so. They should always remember that every person on earth has rights to be respected and pursued.