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In 2008, the
legal act defining the specialized support to be provided in pre-school,
primary and secondary education (Decree-Law N.º 3/2008) has been published.
This diploma
establishes a network for special education: special education schools for
blind and visually impaired students, bilingual education for deaf students,
structured teaching support units for students diagnosed with autism-related
disorders and specialized support units for the education of pupils with
multiple disabilities and congenital deaf-blindness, as well as reference
groups for early intervention in childhood.
The Bilingual Education of deaf students, also
contemplates the teaching/ learning of Portuguese sign language, recognized in
the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic, in 1997, as the maternal language
of deaf people.
In this
regard, it should be noted that the higher education of Portuguese sign
language interpreters is ensured by the Higher Education Schools of Polytechnic
Institutes in Setúbal, O’Porto and Coimbra.
There is a
national network of 74 centers for educational inclusion and 25 resource
centers for inclusion.
In 2010/2011,
43.708 individual educational programs have been developed in public
educational institutions, 2320 of which related to pre-school education.
The number of students placed under special quota for
persons with physical disabilities or sensory impairments was the following
over the past five years
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2008
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2011
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143
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160
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147
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