The inclusion of school-age children with special educational needs

The right to education is a basic necessity for the human being and is provided in several international instruments on fundamental human rights. Albeit the right to education has been recognised for more than half a century, persons with disabilities, given the incomparable status, had to dedicate additional efforts to have their right recognised. The issue becomes even more subtle in the case of children with special educational needs, who, facing situations of inequality and unfairness and being in an obvious disadvantage compared to other members of society, shall claim the adaption of means and environment, so that this right become effective to the fullest. For these reasons, inclusive education shall involve all children, regardless of their intellectual, physical, social, emotional, linguistic or other condition and respond to their needs.