Problem/Solution Composition (Práctica Evaluable)

Disabled children attending non-special education schools has always been a controversial and problematic issue in Spain. My mother, who has been a teacher in a Primary School for 30 years, has always had some disabled kids in her class, in a school which is not adapted for disabled students. In the beginning, there used to be one or two, but in recent years, the number has increased and so, the problem.

Indeed, it is very positive for disabled children to attend classes together with non-disabled children to promote integration. The problem appears when there are too many disabled and the teacher has to choose either to focus more on the disabled ones, which obviously require more time and attention, or on the non-disabled ones.

One possible solution would be the construction of more special education centres and schools, where children with special needs could receive full attention and get a better learning. But then, it would not foment their integration with other children, which is very good for both parts as well. Another solution could be that the special-education teachers who come once or twice a week to deal with these children, were given more hours. These teachers come to take disabled children out from the standard class a few hours once or twice a week. Instead, they could do it, for instance, everyday.

As a way of conclusion, we can say that it is very positive to include children with special needs within non-special education classes. It is very enriching for both disabled and non disabled. But it is very important to do it in the right way, which is hiring these special education teachers during more hours, so everybody can get advantage from it: disabled children can improve and learn more and the number of unemployed teachers can go down.