IDENTIFICATION OF SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS
The differences from the customary in the abilities, background and personal characteristics of students, which are significant enough not to enable to satisfy their need for education in an easily accessible way, are regarded as special educational needs. In schooling and education, special educational support or a curriculum of a different level has to be applied or changes to the regulation of studies have to be made.
Special educational needs are:
- general or special talent;
- learning disabilities (specific and general);
- sensory disability (deafness and hearing impairment; blindness and visual impairment);
- physical disabilities;
- emotional problems and conduct disorder;
- speech impairment;
- intellectual disability and multiple disabilities;
- addiction disorder.
Children with special needs are recommended a suitable nursery school or group or curriculum suitable for their abilities by a decision of counselling committee. A child with special needs is admitted to an integration group or a group for children with special needs on the basis of written application from a parent (caregiver) and a decision of the counselling committee.
A counselling committee shall include a special education teacher, a speech therapist, a psychologist, a social worker and a representative of the county or city government accordingly.
A counselling committee is competent to:
- assign to a student with special needs a curriculum or a form of study suitable for the needs of the child;
- refer a student with special needs to a sanatorium school, a school or class for students with special needs with the consent of a parent (caregiver);
- decide postponing the obligation to attend school at the request of a parent.
If a student of years 1 and 2 of basic school cannot fulfil the requirements of the curriculum, the school shall direct him or her with the consent of a parent to speech therapist, educational psychologist or to psychiatrist, if necessary, where the reasons of lag shall be identified. If the lag is connected to disability, measures shall be taken to guarantee to the student opportunities to acquire education suitable for his or her needs.
After attendance of a sanatorium school or a school for students with special needs is no longer necessary, a student has the right to continue his or her studies in his or her former school. |
