10-Year Teacher Training Program for Special Children

Section 1 establishes the ten-year program under the administration and supervision of the Bureau of Public Schools.
Section 1 requires cooperation with the University of the Philippines.
Section 7 tasks the Secretary of Education to issue rules and regulations and to employ specialists to implement the Act.
Section 4 provides that program disbursements are made by the Director of Public Schools.

Section 2 defines “special and exceptional children” to include the mentally retarded.
Section 2 includes the crippled.
Section 2 includes the deaf and hard of hearing.
Section 2 includes the speech handicapped.
Section 2 includes the socially and emotionally disturbed.
Section 2 includes the gifted.

Section 1 establishes the program as a ten-year training program for teachers of special and exceptional children in the Philippines.
Section 3 requires institutions of learning chosen by the Department of Education to grant the necessary credit for the training of teachers under the program.
Section 6 creates scholarships every year for ten years for prospective teachers who will undertake the training courses.
Section 6 requires the coordinator of the program to ensure scholarship grantees and teacher trainees are intellectually and emotionally prepared to handle special education.

Section 4 charges program expenses—including tuition and other fees and stipends of teacher trainees—against the funds of the program.
Section 4 directs that such expenses are disbursed by the Director of Public Schools.
Section 8 authorizes an appropriation of PHP 350,000 out of funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated to carry out the Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixty-eight.
Section 8 provides that thereafter, such sums as are necessary for program operations must be included in the annual General Appropriations Act.

Section 5 requires the program, as far as practicable, to include setting up pilot classes for special and exceptional children in regular schools.
Section 5 states the end goal of pilot classes is integrating special and exceptional children into the regular school program and encouraging socialization.
Section 5 requires the program to set up projects so that special education is conducted within the facilities of regular schools whenever possible.
Section 5 requires the program to set up research and survey projects to identify and locate exceptional children in need of its services.

Section 7 directs the Secretary of Education to issue such rules and regulations as necessary to implement the Act.
Section 7 authorizes the Secretary of Education to employ such specialists as may be necessary to implement the Act.